Famous Quotes

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

~ Marcus Aurelius

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

~ Malcolm X

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

~ Oscar Wilde

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

~ Lao Tzu

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

~ Cassandra Clare

Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!

~ Cassandra Clare

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

~ Lemony Snicket

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

~ T.s. Eliot

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

~ Wallace Stevens

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

~ J.d. Salinger

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

~ Jessamyn West

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

~ Walt Whitman

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

~ Carl Sagan

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

~ Terry Goodkind

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

~ George Orwell

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

~ Ally Carter

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

~ Carl Sagan

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

~ Oscar Wilde

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.

~ Delia Ephron

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

~ George Orwell

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

~ Jodi Picoult

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

~ Dorothy Allison

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

~ Karen Marie Moning

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.

~ Melina Marchetta

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

~ C.s. Lewis

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

~ John Steinbeck

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody. ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

~ James Joyce

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

~ Jane Austen

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

~ Georges Bataille

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

~ Margaret Atwood

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

~ Mark Twain