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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“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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“Half a truth is often a great lie.” — Benjamin Franklin

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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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“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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“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.” — Mark Twain

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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” — Winston Churchill

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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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“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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“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 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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“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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“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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“Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.” — Voltaire

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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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“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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“Silence is the mother of truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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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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