Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willard Van Orman Quine

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

Warren G. Bennis

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Ronald Reagan

Facts are stupid things.

Said Nursi

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

Said Nursi

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Saint Augustine

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Saint Augustine

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Saint Augustine

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Umberto Eco

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

Robinson Jeffers

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Robin Hobb

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Robert Ringer

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert Redford

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Richard Paul Evans

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Richard P. Feynman

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.

Richard P. Feynman

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Richard John Neuhaus

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Richard Hofstadter

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Richard Wilbur

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

Richard Whately

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

Richard Whately

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Richard Whately

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Rebecca West

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Richard Bach

So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Thomas Sowell

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

Thomas Sowell

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

Robert Anton Wilson

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Rob Lowe

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

Ricky Jay

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.