975 private quotes tagged truth

“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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“Time discovers truth.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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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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“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“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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“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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“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.” — Victor Hugo

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“A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.” — Yogi Berra

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

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“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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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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