975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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

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“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.” — Anatole France

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

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“Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?” — Jeanne Moreau

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“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

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“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.” — Sophocles

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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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“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.” — Thomas Moore

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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 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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“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.” — Mason Cooley

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

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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” — H. L. Mencken

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