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John Howard
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
James D. Watson
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
James Madison
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Simone de Beauvoir
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Lillian Hellman
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
George Orwell
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Hermann Hesse
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Sydney J. Harris
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
W. Clement Stone
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
Lord Byron
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Khalil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Norman Wisdom
I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.
Thomas Huxley
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
Mahatma Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mary Astell
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
Bruce Lee
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bill Hicks
Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
Anthony Burgess
Every dogma has its day.
P. G. Wodehouse
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
Demetri Martin
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'