975 private quotes tagged truth

“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“'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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“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.” — Hypatia

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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“The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.” — William Osler

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