Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

Blaise Pascal

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Blaise Pascal

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Blaise Pascal

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Dean Koontz

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

Dean Koontz

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Dean Koontz

When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

Daniel Ellsberg

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

Daniel Gilbert

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

Daniel Handler

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Elizabeth Kenny

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

Berthold Auerbach

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Babe Paley

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.