Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernst Toller

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Cassandra Clare

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Frank Herbert

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Guru Nanak

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Jesse Ventura

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

H. G. Wells

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

George Herbert

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Jean de la Bruyere

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Jean de la Bruyere

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Jean Baudrillard

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost....

Jean Baudrillard

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Muriel Rukeyser

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Kevin Costner

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

Jules Verne

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Judi Dench

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Josh Brolin

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Joseph Joubert

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

Molly Ivins

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

H. L. Mencken

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

H. L. Mencken

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

George Herbert

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

George Herbert

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Georg Brandes

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....