Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Billings

Truth is the edict of God.

Karl G. Maeser

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

Karl Barth

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

Karl Kraus

The real truths are those that can be invented.

Karl Kraus

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Karl Kraus

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

Karl Kraus

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

Karl Lagerfeld

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Otto von Bismarck

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Otto von Bismarck

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Kami Garcia

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Joyce Meyer

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Paul Tillich

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Paul Krugman

as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here - that usually you learn a lot more by thinking really hard about the data than you do by sniffing around for supposedly inside information.

Madame de Stael

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

Gustave Courbet

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Gustave Flaubert

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Greg Behrendt

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

John Dryden

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

John Dryden

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

John Dryden

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

John Dryden

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

John Dryden

The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

John Dryden

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

Louis Pasteur

Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.

John Bradshaw

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

M. Scott Peck

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

Luther Burbank

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

John Charles Polanyi

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.