Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Giraudoux

There are truths which can kill a nation.

James A. Baldwin

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

James A. Baldwin

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Gao Xingjian

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

Franz Grillparzer

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Jeanette Winterson

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Jean-Paul Sartre

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Georges Bernanos

Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward.

Georges Braque

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

Georges Braque

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

George Saunders

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

Jim Garrison

I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.

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.

Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

Esther Hicks

Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.

Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Erwin Chargaff

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Grover Cleveland

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Graham Greene

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Goodman Ace

I keep reading between the lies.

Gerald Massey

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

Harriet Martineau

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Harriet Martineau

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Hallie Ephron

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.