975 private quotes tagged truth

“Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.” — Ansel Adams

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“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.” — H. G. Wells

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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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“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.” — Samuel Butler

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“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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

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

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

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“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” — Stephen Fry

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“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.” — William Butler Yeats

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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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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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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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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.” — Francis Bacon

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

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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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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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“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.” — H. L. Mencken

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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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