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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“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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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.” — 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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“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.” — Lord Byron

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

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

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

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

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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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“A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.” — Yogi Berra

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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.” — Aldous Huxley

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“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.” — Victor Hugo

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