Famous Quotes

"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."

Igor Stravinsky 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 Igor Stravinsky

• "Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"

• "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

• "A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."

• "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

• "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."