975 private quotes tagged truth

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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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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“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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“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.” — Anatole France

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

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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.” — Blaise Pascal

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“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” — Winston Churchill

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“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

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

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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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“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.” — Lord Byron

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