975 private quotes tagged truth

“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.” — Thomas Paine

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“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” — George Eliot

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“Half a truth is better than no politics.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.” — Mason Cooley

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“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” — Buddha

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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” — Winston Churchill

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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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“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.” — Alan Watts

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“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” — Blaise Pascal

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“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” — Max Planck

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

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“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“And 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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“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.” — Emile Zola

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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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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy

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