Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Browning

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

Samuel Adams

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

T. S. Eliot

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Sydney J. Harris

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Susan Sontag

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Scott Westerfeld

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Adams

Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

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.

Terry Pratchett

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

Terry Pratchett

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

Terry Pratchett

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Terry Eagleton

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

Terry Eagleton

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.