975 private quotes tagged truth

“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.” — Albert Camus

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“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.” — H. L. Mencken

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“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.” — Leo Tolstoy

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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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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” — Winston Churchill

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“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” — Albert Einstein

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“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.” — William Butler Yeats

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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 scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” — Max Planck

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

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“Too much truth is uncouth.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.” — William Butler Yeats

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

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“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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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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“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.” — Mark Twain

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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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“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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“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.” — Thomas Jefferson

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