Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Paul Watson

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

The truth is we're being selfish. We're getting more out of this than they are.

The truth is the truth, and it doesn't change.

Kent Conrad

The truth is there are no surpluses, ... There are liabilities.

The truth is that these are not unusual.

Peter Capaldi

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

The truth is, it happened...just like she told all those people.

Gore Vidal

The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

Sophocles

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

Sophocles

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

Truth is always straightforward.

Sophocles

The truth is ever best.

Sophocles

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Scott Westerfeld

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Adams

Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

Ray Nagin

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

Rajneesh

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

Thomas Jefferson

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Thomas Jefferson

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Thomas Jefferson

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead....

Thomas Jefferson

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

Sylvia Plath

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.

Sylvia Plath

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

Sylvia Plath

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.