975 private quotes tagged truth

“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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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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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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