Famous Quotes

"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

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 Umberto Eco

• "Translation is the art of failure."

• "Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

• "We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death."

• "The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

• "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."