Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Mann

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Horace Mann

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Sevyn Streeter

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

Hunter S. Thompson

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Hu Shih

The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

Honore de Balzac

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Harold Prince

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

Harold Prince

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

James E. Faust

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

James D'arcy

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Jamaica Kincaid

The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Isaac Asimov

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.

Immanuel Kant

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.

Neale Donald Walsch

Truth is created, not discover!

Neale Donald Walsch

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

Neale Donald Walsch

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

Neale Donald Walsch

... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others. You will not find Truth in your past data, only past data that is based on other past data that is based on other past data, and so forth. Forget your "past experience" and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth.

Neale Donald Walsch

Tell the truth as soon as you know it.

Marcel Proust

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

Marcel Proust

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

Marcel Proust

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

Marcel Proust

Truth is a point of view about things.

Joseph Addison

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Jorge Luis Borges

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Jonathan Swift

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.