975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.” — William Butler Yeats

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.” — Voltaire

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“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.” — Herman Melville

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

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