975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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“There is no truth. There is only perception.” — Gustave Flaubert

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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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“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.” — Nikolai Berdyaev

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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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“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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“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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“I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.” — Michael Landon

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“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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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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“Ideas are, in truth, force.” — Henry James

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

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“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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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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“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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“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.” — Charles Pierce

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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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“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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“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.” — Kris Kristofferson

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“Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.” — Thomas Becket

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