Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Jean Cocteau

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

George Carlin

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period....

Frederick Douglass

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Felix Frankfurter

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

Fanny Kemble

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

Francis Parker Yockey

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Francis Bacon

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

Francis Bacon

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Francis Bacon

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Francis Bacon

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Francis Bacon

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Francis Bacon

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Francis Bacon

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.

Frances Wright

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Frances Wright

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Frances Wright

Truth is but approved facts.

Flora Lewis

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Flannery O'Connor

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

Flannery O'Connor

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

Flannery O'Connor

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Ferran Adria

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Cassandra Clare

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

George Eliot

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

Sathya Baba

Its is Truth and Truth alone, that is one's real friend, relative.