Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Locke

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

John Locke

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

John Locke

Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.

John Locke

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

John Locke

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

John Locke

Who lies for you will lie against you.

John Lennon

Nothing is real.

John Lennon

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

John le Carre

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Katherine Anne Porter

words can never get at the truth.

Judy Blume

The truth will make you odd.

Josh McDowell

Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original.

Leonard Cohen

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

John Keats

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

Joseph Goebbels

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

Jules Renard

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Josh Billings

Truth is the edict of God.

Karl G. Maeser

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

Karl Barth

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

Karl Kraus

The real truths are those that can be invented.

Karl Kraus

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Karl Kraus

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Karl Kraus

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

Karl Lagerfeld

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Otto von Bismarck

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Otto von Bismarck

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Kami Garcia

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Joyce Meyer

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Paul Tillich

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Paul Krugman

as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here - that usually you learn a lot more by thinking really hard about the data than you do by sniffing around for supposedly inside information.

Martin Luther

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Martin Luther

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Mortimer Adler

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.