975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.” — Voltaire

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“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” — Walt Whitman

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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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“For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.” — Samuel Butler

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“There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.” — Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.” — H. L. Mencken

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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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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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“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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“No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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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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“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.” — H. L. Mencken

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“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.” — 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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