Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cowper

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

William Cowper

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

William Cowper

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!

William Allen White

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

William Allen White

You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

Wilfred Owen

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

Washington Allston

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Stephen Colbert

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

Stephen Colbert

Warmth is to sun, as truth is to me.

Stephen Colbert

I scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth.

Stephen Colbert

Apply Truth liberally to the inflamed area.

Stefan Zweig

But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

Stefan Zweig

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent....

Sophie Kinsella

A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…

Thomas Gray

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

Thomas Hardy

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Thomas Hobbes

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Thomas Hobbes

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

Thomas Hobbes

Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

Thomas Jefferson

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Brooks

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Thomas Brooks

Truth is mighty and will prevail

Thomas Brooks

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Victor Hugo

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Gordon B. Hinckley

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Giuseppe Mazzini

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

Geri Halliwell

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Gerard Butler

The truth is never pretty.