Famous Quotes

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

~ Voltaire

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

~ René Descartes

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

~ Moderata Fonte

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

~ Elvis Presley

Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

~ Katherine Mansfield

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

~ Scott Westerfeld

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

~ Sigmund Freud

I love the stars.Because they can't say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.

~ Natsuki Takaya

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

~ Warsan Shire

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.

~ Suzanne Collins

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

~ Helen Keller

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

~ Brené Brown

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

~ John Keats

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

~ Gena Showalter

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

~ Veronica Roth

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

~ Simone Elkeles

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

~ Holly Black

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

~ Carl Sagan

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

~ Harold Pinter

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

~ Michael Jackson

I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.We do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I— what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

~ Socrates

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

~ Emilie Autumn

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

~ Banksy

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

~ Khaled Hosseini

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

~ Albert Einstein

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

~ J.d. Salinger

You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.

~ Philip Roth

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.

~ Fernando Pessoa