975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.” — Lord Byron

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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” — Francis Bacon

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“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.” — George Eliot

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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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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.” — Francis Bacon

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

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

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“There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.” — Samuel Butler

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“The words of truth are simple.” — Aeschylus

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“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.” — H. G. Wells

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“Truth is a tendency.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.” — Herman Melville

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

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

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“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

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“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

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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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“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.” — William Butler Yeats

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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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“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” — Thomas Paine

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“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.” — George Carlin

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