It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert EinsteinWe call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert CamusNew knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt VonnegutThere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin DisraeliThe 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.
BuddhaChristianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. LewisNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise PascalNothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich NietzscheThe thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
Conor McGregorTruth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma GandhiTruth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George WashingtonI refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhy did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee WilliamsWe often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTwo qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Carl von ClausewitzFalsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George EliotEvery age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul SartreThe artist in me cries out for design.
Robert FrostThe universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus AureliusNot everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
Franz KafkaWhen I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘
Taylor SwiftThe oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Hosea BallouIt is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfI have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
Benjamin FranklinIt is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganI am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas JeffersonPart of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
Jordan PetersonThe obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Khalil GibranOnce I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.
David BowieIgnorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonThe government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
Noam ChomskyIt seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John RuskinWhat I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady GagaTime discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThrough my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘
Adam SandlerA nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. KennedyMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
George OrwellIf you’re lying, you’re lying.
John C. MaxwellWe occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillI hate the idea of genres.
Billie EilishPower is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel JohnsonWe have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William JamesPolitical language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis BaconHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusMy style influences my music and everything around me.
Bad BunnyTruth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
PlatoI can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.
RihannaWe know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise PascalThere are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
BuddhaAnd if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.
Taylor SwiftAll fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce LeeTruth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis BaconI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas JeffersonMan approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous HuxleyTruth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas JeffersonNo such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWrite injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin