975 private quotes tagged truth

“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.” — James Russell Lowell

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“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.” — Henry Miller

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“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.” — Peter Tosh

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“A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!” — Sonia Johnson

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“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.” — Mary Astell

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“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.” — George Santayana

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“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.” — Margaret Fuller

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“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” — Virginia Woolf

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“In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.” — Leonard Cohen

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“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” — Michelle Obama

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“It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.” — John Stuart Mill

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“It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.” — Sharon Stone

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“What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.” — Tracey Emin

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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.” — Anne Lamott

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“The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.” — Randy Neugebauer

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“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.” — Xun Zi

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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.” — Tacitus

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