975 private quotes tagged truth

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.” — Robert M. Pirsig

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“Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.” — Hu Shih

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“The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.” — Richard Roeper

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“I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.” — Kelly Miller

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“I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.” — Kevin O'Leary

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“Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.” — Jean Claude Van Damme

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“In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.” — A. Philip Randolph

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“To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.” — Jonathan Frid

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“The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.” — Jack Kemp

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“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” — Katherine Mansfield

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“When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.” — Barry White

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“Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.” — James Broughton

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“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.” — Benito Mussolini

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“To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.” — Novalis

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“Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!” — Jonathan Davis

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“Truth is exact correspondence with reality.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

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“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.” — Denis Diderot

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“I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.” — Audre Lorde

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“Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!” — Swami Sivananda

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“Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.” — Miriam Makeba

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“I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” — Adlai Stevenson

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“I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.” — Brad Pitt

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“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.” — John Dryden

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“To tell the truth is revolutionary.” — Antonio Gramsci

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“Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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