Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Donne

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

John O'Donohue

I am sure of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections.

John Milton

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

John Calvin

All truth is God's truth.

John Astin

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

Johan Huizinga

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Johan Huizinga

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Johan Huizinga

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

Joan of Arc

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

Garry Kasparov

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

George Crabbe

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

John Burroughs

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

John Bunyan

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

Louis Agassiz

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Madeleine L'Engle

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Lysander Spooner

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.

Lou Ferrigno

The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life

John Florio

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

Linus Pauling

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

Leon Battista Alberti

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

Leo Tolstoy

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Leo Tolstoy

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Leo Tolstoy

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Leo Buscaglia

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

Lawrence M. Krauss

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

Karl Popper

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

Karl Popper

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

John Masefield

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.