975 private quotes tagged truth

“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.” — Tacitus

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“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.” — Epictetus

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“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.” — Helen Hayes

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“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.” — Frank Sinatra

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“In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.” — Xun Zi

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“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.” — Camillo di Cavour

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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” — John Ruskin

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“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.” — M. Russell Ballard

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“The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” — William James

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“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.” — Alfred Adler

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“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” — Charles Peguy

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“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Jesus Christ

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“I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” — Jane Austen

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“Truth is what works.” — William James

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“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.” — William Osler

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