Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

I am nothing, truth is everything.

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.

Bobby Vinton

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Bob Dylan

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Billy Crudup

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

Boris Pasternak

... the unarmed power of naked truth.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Bodhidharma

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

Brigham Young

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

Brenda Ueland

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

Brenda Ueland

Be bold, free, and truthful.

Jane Hirshfield

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Jane Hirshfield

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Ed Koch

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

Blaise Pascal

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Blaise Pascal

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

Blaise Pascal

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

Blaise Pascal

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

Blaise Pascal

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Blaise Pascal

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

Blaise Pascal

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Blaise Pascal

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?