Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Gerald R. Ford

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Hunter S. Thompson

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Hu Shih

The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

Honore de Balzac

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Hugh Jackman

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Horace Walpole

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Horace Mann

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

Horace Mann

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Horace Mann

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Horace Mann

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

Horace Mann

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Horace Mann

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Sevyn Streeter

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

Eminem

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Jasper Johns

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.