Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

Truth is never far behind.

Lydia M. Child

Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!

Lucretia Mott

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Lucretia Mott

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Lucretius

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Louis Kronenberger

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Michael Jackson

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

Mark Twain

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Mark Twain

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Mark Twain

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Mark Twain

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Mark Twain

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Mark Twain

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Mark Twain

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mary Renault

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Mary Baker Eddy

Truth has no beginning.

Marquis de Sade

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

Mario Vargas Llosa

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Marilyn Monroe

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Marilyn Monroe

I believe in everything - a little bit.

Nick Hornby

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.