Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Gray

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

Thomas Hardy

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Thomas Hobbes

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Thomas Hobbes

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

Thomas Hobbes

Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

Thomas Jefferson

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Brooks

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Thomas Brooks

Truth is mighty and will prevail

Thomas Brooks

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Victor Hugo

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

S. E. Hinton

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Russell M. Nelson

Truth is truth! It is not divisible, and any part of it cannot be set aside.

Ronald Knox

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

Romain Rolland

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Where ever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of souls that will form the new ground.

Rumi

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Roy H. Williams

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Pearl S. Buck

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

Peter Tosh

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Peter Kreeft

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

Pema Chodron

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

Paulo Costanzo

This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations.

Peter Sellers

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

Phyllis Bottome

Truth is its own defense.

Phyllis Bottome

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Phyllis Rose

When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does?

Philip Pullman

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth reveals itself in beauty.

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.

Rabindranath Tagore

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.