Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rick Riordan

Does truth have a moral?

Tinashe

There is the devil at the door. I'm nearly going under, can't help but wonder who am I working for? No one's more enslaved now then the ones who falsely feel they are free. I've come to terms with the fact that nothing is what it seems. This life is an illusion. And everything you thought you knew isn't what it seems. Only truth will set you free. This new world has begun.

Thucydides

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

Robert A. Heinlein

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

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.

Thomas Brooks

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Thomas Brooks

Truth is mighty and will prevail

Thomas Brooks

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Victor Hugo

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Victor Hugo

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Vernon Howard

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....

Vernon Howard

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Richard Bach

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Robert Frost

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Robert Fulghum

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Robert Frost

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Rene Descartes

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Thornton Wilder

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thomas Paine

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Thomas Paine

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

Thomas Paine

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Thomas Paine

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Huxley

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

Thomas Huxley

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.