Famous Quotes

"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."

Herman Melville on Truth

More quotes about Truth

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

  Marcus Aurelius on Truth

• "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

  Albert Einstein on Truth

• "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

  Buddha on Truth

• "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth

• "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

  Winston Churchill on Truth

More quotes by Herman Melville

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "Art is the objectification of feeling."

• "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."