975 private quotes tagged truth

“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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“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.” — George Harrison

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“When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.” — Amber Frey

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“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.” — Margaret Thatcher

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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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“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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“The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.” — Peter Abelard

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“I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Jesus Christ

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“The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?” — E. O. Wilson

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“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.” — Bill Copeland

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“The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.” — Simone Weil

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“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.” — Bill Hicks

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“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.” — Jane Austen

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“Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.” — William James

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“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.” — Clarence Darrow

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“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.” — John Ruskin

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“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.” — Peter Abelard

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” — Jane Austen

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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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“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.” — Paul Scott

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