975 private quotes tagged truth

“Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.” — Herman Melville

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“The words of truth are always paradoxical.” — Lao Tzu

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“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.” — George Orwell

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“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”

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“It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.” — Sophocles

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“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.” — Aldous Huxley

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“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.” — Blaise Pascal

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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” — George Orwell

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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.” — Blaise Pascal

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“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.” — Lord Byron

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“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” — André Gide

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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” — Francis Bacon

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“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?” — Lord Byron

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“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” — Thomas Carlyle

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“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.” — Pablo Picasso

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“For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.” — Samuel Butler

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“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.” — George Eliot

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“God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” — Walt Whitman

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“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.” — Logan P. Smith

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“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” — Thomas Paine

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