Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Michael Leunig

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Patrick Henry

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Pat Cooper

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

Julia Roberts

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

Julia Roberts

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Lisi Harrison

Truth is beauty

Leonardo da Vinci

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Paul Gauguin

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Patrick Rothfuss

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Lillian Hellman

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Laurence Fishburne

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

Nawal El Saadawi

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

Nawal El Saadawi

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Any truth creates a scandal.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Miguel de Unamuno

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Miguel de Unamuno

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadia Boulanger

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Princess Diana

I am always going to be true to myself.