Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

D. H. Lawrence

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Clarence Darrow

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

Clarence Darrow

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Daniel Dennett

The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.

Alexander Pope

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Alexander Pope

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Albert Schweitzer

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

E. Howard Hunt

No one is entitled to the truth.

E. P. Thompson

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.

Donald Sutherland

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

Dylan Thomas

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth....

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Douglas Adams

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

Dorothea Dix

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Dorothy Allison

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

Doris Lessing

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Donna Tartt

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

Dale Carnegie

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

Claud Cockburn

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

e. e. cummings

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

E. B. White

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

Douglas Hofstadter

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

Donald Trump

The truth is, the central issue is not the needs of the 11 million illegal immigrants or however many there may be - and honestly we've been hearing that number for years. It's always 11 million. Our government has no idea. It could be 3 million. It could be 30 million. They have no idea what the number is.

David Mamet

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

David Hare

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hawkins

To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.

Dan Brown

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Confucius

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

Confucius

The object of the superior man is truth.