Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

“Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)