Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Vaughn

It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.

Vince Lombardi

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

Vince Lombardi

The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win.

Vince Lombardi

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Robert Graves

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing but truth is immortal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

Samuel Johnson

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Samuel Johnson

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Samuel Johnson

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Rowan Williams

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Rodney Dangerfield

I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

Robertson Davies

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Robert Penn Warren

For the truth is a terrible thing.

Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

William Holden

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

Will Smith

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.

Warren Buffett

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

Vincent Van Gogh

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

Vladimir Lenin

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Vladimir Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Walter Benjamin

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help....

Walter Cronkite

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Virginia Woolf

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

William Blake

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

Error is created; truth is eternal.