Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.

William Butler Yeats

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

William Butler Yeats

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

William Butler Yeats

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

William Butler Yeats

I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

William Butler Yeats

I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

Walter Scott

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Walter Scott

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

William Kingdon Clifford

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

William Safire

Never assume the obvious is true.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Vincent D'Onofrio

The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.

Saint Augustine

Truth is not private property.

Saint Augustine

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

Xenophanes

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

W. Clement Stone

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. C. Fields

You can't cheat an honest man.

Yunus Emre

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow....

William Hazlitt

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

William Hazlitt

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

William Dean Howells

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

Wendell Phillips

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Will Smith

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.

Warren Buffett

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

Vincent Van Gogh

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

Vladimir Lenin

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Vladimir Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Walter Benjamin

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help....

Walter Cronkite

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Virginia Woolf

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.