Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

William Blake

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

William Blake

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Werner Heisenberg

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

Werner Heisenberg

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

Werner Herzog

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Samuel Richardson

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Samuel Butler

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Samuel Butler

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

Samuel Beckett

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Salman Rushdie

Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.

W. H. Auden

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

William Cowper

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

William Cowper

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

William Cowper

But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.

William Cowper

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

William Cowper

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

William Cowper

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!

William Allen White

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

William Allen White

You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

Wilfred Owen

All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.

Washington Allston

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Stephen Colbert

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

Stephen Colbert

Warmth is to sun, as truth is to me.

Stephen Colbert

I scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth.

Stephen Colbert

Apply Truth liberally to the inflamed area.

Stefan Zweig

But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

Stefan Zweig

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent....

Sophie Kinsella

A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…