975 private quotes tagged truth

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” — 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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“Time discovers truth.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” — George Washington

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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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