Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Mark Twain

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Leonardo da Vinci

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Paul Gauguin

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Patrick Rothfuss

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Lillian Hellman

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Laurence Fishburne

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

P. J. O'Rourke

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

Paul Cezanne

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

Paul Cezanne

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Oscar Wilde

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Oscar Wilde

Truth is independent of facts always.

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.

Iris Murdoch

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

Ida Tarbell

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Gloria Steinem

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Giordano Bruno

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

Giordano Bruno

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Harry S Truman

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

J. L. Austin

Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.