975 private quotes tagged truth

“The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.” — Emile M. Cioran

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“A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.” — Jack White

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“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.” — Umberto Eco

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“Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.” — Camillo di Cavour

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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” — John Ruskin

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“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.” — Epictetus

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“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.” — James Otis

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“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.” — Tacitus

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“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.” — Helen Hayes

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“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.” — M. Russell Ballard

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“Truth is what works.” — William James

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“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” — William James

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“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.” — Frank Sinatra

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“In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.” — Xun Zi

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“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.” — Phil McGraw

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“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.” — Alfred Adler

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“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” — Charles Peguy

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