Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

Khalil Gibran

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

Khalil Gibran

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

Khalil Gibran

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Naomi Wolf

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Napoleon Hill

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

Norman O. Brown

Truth is error burned up.

Orson Welles

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Oliver Tambo

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

O. Henry

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

Octavia Butler

The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

Michael Caine

Maybe its time we stop trying to avoid the truth and let it have its day.

Mason Cooley

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

Mason Cooley

Disillusionment is not truth.

Mason Cooley

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Mason Cooley

Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

Mason Cooley

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Mason Cooley

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

Mason Cooley

The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

Mason Cooley

The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

Mason Cooley

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

Mason Cooley

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

Mason Cooley

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

Mason Cooley

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

Mason Cooley

Truth usually stammers at first.

Mason Cooley

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.