Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Alfred Korzybski

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

Aldous Huxley

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Huxley

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Albert Einstein

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Albert Einstein

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

Alexander Haig

The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adolf Hitler

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

Adolf Hitler

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

The truth is the best propaganda.

Adolf Hitler

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Adolf Hitler

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

Adolf Hitler

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Athol Fugard

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

Tyler Hamilton

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Tyler Hamilton

The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.

A.J. Burnett

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

A. E. van Vogt

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Adrienne Rich

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Agatha Christie

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Adrian Rogers

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

Adrian Rogers

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Ada Lovelace

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.

Abraham Lincoln

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.