World Quotes

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

~ Buddha

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

~ Bob Dylan

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

~ Buddha

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

~ John Wayne

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

~ Ansel Adams

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

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

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

~ James Clavell

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

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

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

~ Ramakrishna

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

~ James Callaghan

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

~ Joyce Meyer

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

~ Miriam Makeba

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

~ Hans Eysenck

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

~ Samuel Johnson

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

~ Ernest Renan

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

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

~ Howard Gardner

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

~ Aristotle

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

~ Robert E. Lee

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

~ Pablo Casals

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

~ Sydney Smith

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

~ Carl Lewis

Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.

~ Bill Clegg

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

~ Antonin Scalia

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

~ Simon Van Booy

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

~ Channing Pollock

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

~ Orison Swett Marden

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

~ Meghan Markle

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

~ Peter Thiel