975 private quotes tagged truth

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” — Albert Einstein

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“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” — Martin Luther

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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.” — Lewis Carroll

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“The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.” — Dave Barry

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“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'” — Khalil Gibran

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“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.” — Confucius

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“Truth is in things, and not in words.” — Herman Melville

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“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.” — Samuel Butler

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“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.” — Francis Bacon

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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain

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“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.” — Samuel Butler

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“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Silence is the mother of truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” — William Blake

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“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

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“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“All truth is not to be told at all times.” — Samuel Butler

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“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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