Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim O'Brien

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Thomas Wilson

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Tom Stoppard

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

Tom Brokaw

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

Toby Jones

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

Sylvia Plath

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.

Sylvia Plath

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

Sylvia Plath

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.

Sylvia Plath

I am not cruel, only truthful.

Ronald Coase

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

Ron White

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

Rollo May

To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.

Rumi

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.

Rumi

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

Tom Robbins

Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

Stephen Crane

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

Thomas Merton

Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.

Thomas Carlyle

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Thomas Carlyle

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

Thomas Carlyle

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Thomas Carlyle

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Thomas Carlyle

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Steve Martin

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Spencer Johnson

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Sigmund Freud

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Sigmund Freud

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Serj Tankian

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

Susan Howatch

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

Robert Browning

Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

Robert Browning

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

Robert Browning

Truth is within ourselves.