Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

William Holden

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

Will Smith

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.

Warren Buffett

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

Vincent Van Gogh

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

Vladimir Lenin

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Vladimir Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Walter Benjamin

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help....

Walter Cronkite

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Virginia Woolf

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

William Blake

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

Error is created; truth is eternal.

William Blake

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

William Blake

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

William Blake

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Werner Heisenberg

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

Werner Heisenberg

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

Werner Herzog

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Samuel Richardson

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Samuel Butler

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Samuel Butler

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

Samuel Beckett

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Salman Rushdie

Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.

W. H. Auden

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

William Cowper

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

William Cowper

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

William Cowper

But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.