Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Kevin Costner

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

Jules Verne

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Judi Dench

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

Josh Brolin

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Gerald R. Ford

Truth is the glue that holds government together.