975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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

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“Live truth instead of professing it.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

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“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.” — Aristotle

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“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.” — Plato

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

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“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” — Mark Twain

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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 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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“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” — 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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“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” — Bruce Lee

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“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.” — Josh Billings

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“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.” — Albert Camus

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“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.” — H. L. Mencken

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

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“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.” — Mark Twain

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