Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Huxley

Veracity is the heart of morality.

Thomas Huxley

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Thomas Huxley

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

Thomas Huxley

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

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.

Tryon Edwards

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

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.

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.

Travis Walton

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Tristan Wilds

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

Vince Vaughn

It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.

Vince Lombardi

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

Vince Lombardi

The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win.

Vince Lombardi

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Robert Graves

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing but truth is immortal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

Roger Bacon

As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.'

Roger Bacon

[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error.