975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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

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“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.” — Albert Camus

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

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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” — Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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“Adversity is the first path to truth.” — Lord Byron

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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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“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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“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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“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.” — Aristotle

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“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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