975 private quotes tagged truth

“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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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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“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.” — Khalil Gibran

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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.” — Antisthenes

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“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” — Pablo Picasso

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“The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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