Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a lot on your shoulders. I wouldn't have it any other way, to tell you the truth.

Ernst Toller

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Ernst Toller

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Cassandra Clare

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Muriel Rukeyser

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Frank Herbert

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Guru Nanak

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Jesse Ventura

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

H. G. Wells

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

George Herbert

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Jean de la Bruyere

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Jean de la Bruyere

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Jean Baudrillard

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost....

Jean Baudrillard

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Joseph Joubert

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Joseph Joubert

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

Molly Ivins

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Ken Wilber

"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

Ken Wilber

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Ken Wilber

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

Kathy Freston

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!

Julia Ward Howe

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

Ken Kesey

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

Ken Kesey

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Ken Kesey

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Kris Kristofferson

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Isak Dinesen

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Isak Dinesen

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.