Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Cheri Huber

That which you seek, is causing you to seek.

Charlotte Lennox

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

Charles Lamb

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Charlaine Harris

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Charles Simic

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

Charles Sanders Peirce

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.

Charles Sanders Peirce

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.

Charles Sanders Peirce

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

Charles Mackay

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Bill Maher

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!

Bill Maher

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

Bessie Smith

Listen to my story and everything will come out true

Edna St. Vincent Millay

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.

Benjamin Franklin

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

Benjamin Franklin

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Benjamin Franklin

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Arthur Eddington

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

Arthur Balfour

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Arthur Balfour

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Barry White

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Baltasar Gracian

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

Baltasar Gracian

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Baltasar Gracian

Truth is for the minority.

Baltasar Gracian

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

Arianna Huffington

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

William Shakespeare

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

William Shakespeare

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.