975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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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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“The words of truth are simple.” — Aeschylus

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” — Albert Einstein

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“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” — Aristotle

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

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