975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” — Thomas Carlyle

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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.” — Francis Bacon

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

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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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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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“All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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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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“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.” — James Madison

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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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“God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” — James Madison

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“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” — Khalil Gibran

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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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“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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“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.” — Will Rogers

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“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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