Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Ben Kingsley

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Ben Jonson

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

Alexis Carrel

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

Alexandre Dumas

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

Samuel Butler

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Lindsay Price

The truth is, if you're lucky enough to work, you're a lucky actor.

Nancy Pelosi

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleister Crowley

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Albert Einstein

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

Albert Einstein

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.

Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Albert Einstein

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Alfred North Whitehead

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.