Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

Norman Douglas

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Neil Kinnock

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Neil Gaiman

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

John Tillotson

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

John Tillotson

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

John Stuart Blackie

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

John Sterling

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

John Sterling

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Niels Bohr

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Niels Bohr

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

Nicole Krauss

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

Nicole Kidman

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

Nicole Kidman

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

Johnny Isakson

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

John Woolman

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

John Ruskin

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

Matthew Arnold

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Matthew Arnold

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

Maxim Gorky

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Maxim Gorky

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

Maxim Gorky

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Max Weber

The Truth is the Truth.

Pablo Casals

Say things to the world that are true.

Plautus

I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar. [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]

Plato

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Plato

God is truth and light his shadow.