975 private quotes tagged truth

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

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“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” — Charles Darwin

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“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying b-----d. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.” — Harry S. Truman

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“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.” — William Butler Yeats

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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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“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.” — Aristotle

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“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.” — Antisthenes

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

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“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” — Mark Twain

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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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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” — Leo Tolstoy

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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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“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” — Bruce Lee

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“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.” — Mark Twain

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