975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.” — Will Rogers

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“All truth is not to be told at all times.” — Samuel Butler

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

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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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“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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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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

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“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” — Winston Churchill

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

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“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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“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 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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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand

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

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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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“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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“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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“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” — William Blake

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