Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Durrell

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Lawrence Durrell

Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.

Lawrence Durrell

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

Laura Riding

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Laura Riding

Truth rings no bells.

Laura Riding

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

Marcus Aurelius

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Marcus Aurelius

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marc Chagall

On cannot be precise, and still be true.

Samuel Johnson

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Samuel Johnson

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Samuel Johnson

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Rowan Williams

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Rodney Dangerfield

I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

Robertson Davies

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Robert Penn Warren

For the truth is a terrible thing.

Robert M. Pirsig

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

Robert M. Pirsig

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Robert M. Pirsig

I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

Robert Farrar Capon

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Walt Whitman

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

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.