975 private quotes tagged truth

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” — Thomas Paine

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“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.” — Herman Melville

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“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.” — Aldous Huxley

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“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.” — Victor Hugo

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“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.” — Albert Camus

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“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.” — C. S. Lewis

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“I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.” — Lao Tzu

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso

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“God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?” — Lord Byron

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“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.” — Aristotle

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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” — Josh Billings

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“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.” — Khalil Gibran

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“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.” — Yogi Berra

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“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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