Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict XVI

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Pope John Paul II

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Pindar

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Pierre Corneille

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

Pope Francis

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

Peter Medawar

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Paulo Coelho

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

Quentin Crisp

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Quentin Tarantino

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

Philo

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

Pope John XXIII

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

Nathaniel Branden

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

Jim Rohn

Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.

Jim Rohn

Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.

George Lopez

I think we all feel the same things most of the time, we just don't know how to put it into words. When I'm on stage, I say it. The truth makes people laugh.

George MacDonald

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

George MacDonald

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

George MacDonald

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Emanuel Swedenborg

What is true is true, and what is false is false...

Emanuel Swedenborg

It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Elizabeth Fry

The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.

John Burroughs

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

John Bunyan

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

Louis Agassiz

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Linus Pauling

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

Leon Battista Alberti

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

Leo Tolstoy

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Leo Tolstoy

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Leo Tolstoy

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Leo Buscaglia

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

Lawrence M. Krauss

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

Karl Popper

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.