975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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

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

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

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

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“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.” — Antisthenes

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

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

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“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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

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

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

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

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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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“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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