975 private quotes tagged truth

“When in doubt tell the truth.” — Mark Twain

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

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

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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 takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.” — 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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“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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“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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“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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