Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tom Cruise

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

Sissela Bok

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

Rajneesh

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.

Sojourner Truth

Truth burns up error.

Sojourner Truth

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Sojourner Truth

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Sojourner Truth

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Socrates

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

Michael Servetus

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Michael Shermer

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

Michael Scott

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

Theodore Roosevelt

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

Theodor Adorno

The whole is the false.

Terry Pratchett

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

Margaret Mead

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Fuller

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Margaret Fuller

Truth is the first of jewels.

Kin Hubbard

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Ravi Zacharias

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Randy Quaid

It was real for me and that's all that matters.

Eric Hoffer

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

Enid Bagnold

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

James F. Cooper

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Henry A. Wallace

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Henry B. Eyring

. . . the enemy of righteousness also works in little steps, so small that they are hard to notice if you are thinking only about yourself and how great you are. Just as truth is given to us line upon line and the light brightens slowly as we obey, even so, as we disobey our testimony of truth lessens almost imperceptibly, little by little, and darkness descends so slowly that the proud may easily deny that anything is changing.

Henry Adams

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Henry Adams

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.

Henry George

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Henry David Thoreau

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.