975 private quotes tagged truth

“The words of truth are simple.” — Aeschylus

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

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

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

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

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

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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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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“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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“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“When in doubt tell the truth.” — Mark Twain

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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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“This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” — Samuel Johnson

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

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“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.” — James Madison

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

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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” — Winston Churchill

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“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.” — Albert Camus

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“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.” — C. S. Lewis

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“I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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