975 private quotes tagged truth

“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.” — Doris Lessing

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“Truth is life's most precious commodity.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.” — Charlie Kaufman

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“Language is the house of the truth of Being.” — Martin Heidegger

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“People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.” — Danica McKellar

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“I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.” — Doris Lessing

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“Truth comes to us mediated by human love.” — A. N. Wilson

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“A gift of truth is the gift of love.” — David Icke

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“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.” — Stella Adler

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“This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.” — Johann Arndt

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“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.” — Abdolkarim Soroush

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“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.” — Alan Cohen

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“Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.” — Joseph Conrad

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“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” — Michael Kinsley

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“I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.” — Oliver North

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“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.” — Scott Ritter

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“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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“Tell the truth and shame the devil.” — Francois Rabelais

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“No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.” — Xenophanes

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“I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.” — Regis Philbin

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“I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.” — A. N. Wilson

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“I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.” — Kinky Friedman

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“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.” — Edward de Bono

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“The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.” — Alan Dershowitz

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