Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Arbuthnot

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

John Arbuthnot

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Matthew Arnold

We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

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.

Edward Burnett Tylor

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Edward de Bono

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

Edward Albee

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Edward Albee

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Edith Hamilton

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

John Keats

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John F. Kennedy

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were. [...] The truth doesn't die.

John F. Kennedy

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

John F. Kennedy

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

Jon Voight

Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

Joyce Carol Oates

like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth ...

Joyce Carol Oates

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.

Richard Wilbur

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

Richard Whately

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

Richard Whately

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Richard Whately

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Rebecca West

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Richard Bach

So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Travis Walton

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Tristan Wilds

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Truth is not afraid of questions.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.