Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Michael Jackson

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

Michel de Montaigne

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Michel de Montaigne

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

Michel de Montaigne

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Michael Novak

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

Michael Kimmelman

It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

Markus Zusak

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Mark Twain

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Mark Twain

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Mark Twain

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Mark Twain

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Mark Twain

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Mark Twain

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Mark Twain

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Mark Twain

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Any truth creates a scandal.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Miguel de Unamuno

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Miguel de Unamuno

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadia Boulanger

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Princess Diana

I am always going to be true to myself.

Publilius Syrus

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

Prem Rawat

Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved.... A voice has been calling out: "What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you..."

Potter Stewart

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Nelson Mandela

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.