975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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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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“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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

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