975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” — Francis Bacon

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” — Albert Einstein

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

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

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“All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?” — 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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“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.” — 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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“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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“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 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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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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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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