975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Science is but an image of the truth.” — Francis Bacon

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.” — Albert Camus

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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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