Famous Quotes
- The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
- Richard Dawkins on Truth
- The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
- E. O. Wilson on Truth
- The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Truth
- The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
- Emile M. Cioran on Truth
- The first casualty when war comes is truth.
- Hiram Johnson on Truth
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
- Anne Lamott on Truth
- The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
- William Temple on Truth
- The first reaction to truth is hatred.
- Tertullian on Truth
- The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
- Thomas Merton on Truth
- The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
- Carly Fiorina on Truth
- The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
- Daniel Craig on Truth
- The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy on Truth
- The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers on Truth
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy on Truth
- The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Truth
- The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
- James Russell Lowell on Truth
- The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
- The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.
- Steve Wynn on Truth
- The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
- Peter Abelard on Truth
- The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau on Truth
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein on Truth
- The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
- Carl Bernstein on Truth
- The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
- James Allen on Truth
- The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Truth
- 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 on Truth
- The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
- William Bernbach on Truth
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- Lewis Thomas on Truth
- The object of the superior man is truth.
- The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- Simone Weil on Truth
- The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr on Truth
- The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
- Kim Il-sung on Truth
- The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
- Randy Neugebauer on Truth
- The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau on Truth
- The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
- Donald Rumsfeld on Truth
- The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein on Truth
- The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Truth
- The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.
- Clarence Darrow on Truth
- The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau on Truth
- The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
- Edmond De Goncourt on Truth
- The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt on Truth
- The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
- Henry Louis Gates on Truth
- The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
- Henry Louis Gates on Truth
- The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
- Jeremy Bentham on Truth
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
- Joseph Conrad on Truth
- The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
- Vincent D'Onofrio on Truth
- The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
- Jose Ramos-Horta on Truth
- The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
- Newt Gingrich on Truth
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