975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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

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

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“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.” — Michel de Montaigne

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

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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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“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.” — 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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“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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“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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“God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?” — Lord Byron

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

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“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” — Harry S. Truman

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“All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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