Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleister Crowley

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Albert Einstein

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

Albert Einstein

To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.

Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Albert Einstein

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Alfred North Whitehead

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Alfred North Whitehead

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Alfred Korzybski

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

Aldous Huxley

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Huxley

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Albert Einstein

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Albert Einstein

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

A.J. Burnett

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

A. E. van Vogt

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Adrienne Rich

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Agatha Christie

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Adrian Rogers

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

Adrian Rogers

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Michael Vick

No, I ain't mad. He didn't do anything wrong. The world will all know when the truth comes out.

I can get a feel for whether the person is truthful or not.

Barry Long

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.