975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.” — Carl Jung

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“It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.” — Friedrich Schiller

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

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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 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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“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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“In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.” — Samuel Johnson

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

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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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“If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.” — James Madison

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

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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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“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.” — Lao Tzu

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