Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publilius Syrus

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

Prem Rawat

Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved.... A voice has been calling out: "What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you..."

Potter Stewart

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Nelson Mandela

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.

Neil Young

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

Niccolo Machiavelli

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Noah Webster

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Noam Chomsky

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

Noam Chomsky

You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".

Jodi Picoult

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Jodi Picoult

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

John Greenleaf Whittier

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

Margaret Atwood

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

Margaret Atwood

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

Margaret Atwood

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

Marcus Thomas

Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Kenny Loggins

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.