Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Glenn Beck

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

Peter Ustinov

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Noam Chomsky

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

Cynthia Ozick

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

Cyril Connolly

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

Cornel West

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

Cormac McCarthy

The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

Cormac McCarthy

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

E. W. Howe

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

Joel Salatin

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

John Milton

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.

Franklin Graham

I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

Amy Bloom

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Kurt Vonnegut

. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

William Shakespeare

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

David Bohm

The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion)...

David Baldacci

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

David Mamet

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

Dan Simmons

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

To tell you the truth, I was upset.

Ian Snell

To tell you the truth, I have no idea. That's up to them. I'm just doing my job. Whatever they need me to do, I'll do it.

Casey Neistat

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.