Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Lowe

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Deep truth is imageless.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

Paul Valery

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valery

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

Paul Westerberg

The truth is overrated.

Paul Weyrich

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

Pope Benedict XVI

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Pope John Paul II

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Pope John Paul II

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Pindar

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Pierre Corneille

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

Pope Francis

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

Peter Medawar

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Paulo Coelho

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

Quentin Crisp

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Quentin Tarantino

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

Philo

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

Pope John XXIII

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

Nathaniel Branden

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

Victor Hugo

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Vernon Howard

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....

Vernon Howard

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Richard Bach

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Robert Frost

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Robert Fulghum

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Robert Frost

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Rene Descartes

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Thornton Wilder

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thomas Paine

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.