Famous Quotes

"Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around."

Jane Goodall on Truth

More quotes about Truth

• "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

  Marcus Aurelius on Truth

• "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

  Albert Einstein on Truth

• "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

  Buddha on Truth

• "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth

• "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

  Winston Churchill on Truth

More quotes by Jane Goodall

• "Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around."

• "Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."

• "I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them."

• "When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth."

• "My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl."