Famous Quotes

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

~ Mark Twain

The truth. Dumbledore sighed. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

~ J.k. Rowling

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

~ Mark Twain

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

~ Oscar Wilde

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

~ Joe Klaas

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

~ George Orwell

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

~ Suzanne Collins

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

~ Aldous Huxley

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

~ John Lennon

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

~ George Carlin

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

~ Oscar Wilde

The unexamined life is not worth living.

~ Socrates

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

~ S.e. Hinton

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

~ William Faulkner

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

~ Mark Twain

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

~ Pablo Picasso

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

~ Ernest Hemingway

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

There are no facts, only interpretations.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

~ George Bernard Shaw

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

~ Ernest Hemingway

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

~ Virginia Woolf

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

~ Robert Orben

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

~ C.s. Lewis

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

~ Michelle Hodkin

The only truth is music.

~ Jack Kerouac

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

~ David Foster Wallace

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. I'm okay we say. I'm alright. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

~ Markus Zusak

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

~ George R.r. Martin

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

~ Tim O'brien

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

~ George Washington

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

~ Lemony Snicket

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

~ Katherine Boo

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

~ Kahlil Gibran

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

~ George R.r. Martin

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

~ Ayn Rand