Famous Quotes
- Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Truth
- Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
- Jean Claude Van Damme on Truth
- Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
- Madeleine L'Engle on Truth
- Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Truth
- Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
- Blaise Pascal on Truth
- Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide on Truth
- Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
- Arthur Miller on Truth
- Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
- Samuel Johnson on Truth
- Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Truth
- Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Truth
- Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
- Wole Soyinka on Truth
- Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
- Horatio Nelson on Truth
- But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
- William Shatner on Truth
- But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco on Truth
- But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
- Vanessa Kerry on Truth
- But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine on Truth
- But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
- Alan Watts on Truth
- But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
- Albert Pike on Truth
- But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
- Lord Byron on Truth
- But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
- Pedro Calderon De La Barca on Truth
- By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin on Truth
- By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
- Yukio Mishima on Truth
- Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
- Graham Greene on Truth
- Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
- Clarence Darrow on Truth
- Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
- Joan Of Arc on Truth
- Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
- Mary Todd Lincoln on Truth
- Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
- Sid Caesar on Truth
- Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
- Laura Linney on Truth
- Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- Laurence J. Peter on Truth
- Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
- Jeanette Winterson on Truth
- Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
- Blaise Pascal on Truth
- Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth
- Country music is three chords and the truth.
- Harlan Howard on Truth
- Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
- Martin Scorsese on Truth
- Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
- James Russell Lowell on Truth
- Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Truth
- Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth
- Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow on Truth
- Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
- Swami Sivananda on Truth
- Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
- Louisa May Alcott on Truth
- Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
- Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
- Brigham Young on Truth
- Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
- Ambrose Bierce on Truth
- Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
- Thomas Huxley on Truth
- Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
- Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
- Deepak Chopra on Truth
- Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Truth
- Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
- Abdolkarim Soroush on Truth
- Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot on Truth
- Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
- Christopher Hitchens on Truth
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