975 private quotes tagged truth

“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.” — Horace

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“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.” — Publilius Syrus

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“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.” — Camillo di Cavour

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“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.” — Walter Benjamin

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“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.” — Franz Marc

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“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” — John Keats

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“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?” — Lily Tomlin

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“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.” — Denis Waitley

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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” — Pablo Neruda

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“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.” — Lewis Mumford

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“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.” — Simone Weil

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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.” — James Russell Lowell

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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.” — John Keats

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“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.” — Shinichi Suzuki

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“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.” — Ovid

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“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.” — George Bancroft

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“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.” — Sarah Bernhardt

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“Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.” — Marilyn Manson

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“The best mind-altering drug is the truth.” — Lily Tomlin

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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.” — Jerome K. Jerome

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“The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.” — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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“But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.” — Vanessa Kerry

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