Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

George Berkeley

The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?

George Berkeley

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

George Burns

The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

George Bernard Shaw

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth

George Bernard Shaw

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

George Bernard Shaw

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Gena Showalter

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

Galileo Galilei

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Frederick William Robertson

It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that insures your growth.

Frederick William Robertson

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

Frederick William Robertson

There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.

Franz Kafka

The truth is always an abyss.

Erica Jong

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Frank Knight

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

George Herbert

All truths are not to be told.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Christian Bale

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

Chris Hillman

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

George R. R. Martin

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.