975 private quotes tagged truth

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

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“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“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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“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” — Charles Darwin

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“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying b-----d. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.” — Harry S. Truman

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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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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.” — 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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“Live truth instead of professing it.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.” — William Butler Yeats

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“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” — 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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“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.” — George Eliot

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“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” — Albert Einstein

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“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” — Alfred Tennyson

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