975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.” — Joseph Addison

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.” — Abraham Maslow

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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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