975 private quotes tagged truth

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

0 favs

“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

0 favs

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

0 favs

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

0 favs

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

0 favs

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

0 favs

“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.” — Alexander Pope

0 favs

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

0 favs

“Too much truth is uncouth.” — Franklin P. Adams

0 favs

“The words of truth are simple.” — Aeschylus

0 favs

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

0 favs

“Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.” — Franz Kafka

0 favs

“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.” — William Butler Yeats

0 favs

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

0 favs

“Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.” — Ambrose Bierce

0 favs

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

0 favs

“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” — Max Planck

0 favs

“Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?” — Jeanne Moreau

0 favs

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

0 favs

“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.” — Mahatma Gandhi

0 favs

“Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.” — Mark Twain

0 favs

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

0 favs

“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

0 favs

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” — Walt Whitman

0 favs

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.” — Aristotle

0 favs