Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

William Blake

Error is created; truth is eternal.

William Blake

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

William Blake

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Werner Heisenberg

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

Werner Heisenberg

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

Werner Herzog

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Samuel Richardson

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Samuel Butler

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Samuel Butler

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

Salman Rushdie

Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.

Joseph Estrada

The truth will come out in the end.

Joss Whedon

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

Konrad Lorenz

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Kenneth Branagh

Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.

Keith Green

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Lily Tomlin

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

L. Ron Hubbard

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Tertullian

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Tertullian

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.