975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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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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“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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“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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“I say that justice is truth in action.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Truth is a tendency.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.” — Lord Byron

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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