975 private quotes tagged truth

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” — Albert Einstein

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.” — Lewis Carroll

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“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.” — Khalil Gibran

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“The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.” — Dave Barry

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“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'” — Khalil Gibran

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“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.” — Confucius

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“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.” — Samuel Butler

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“Truth is in things, and not in words.” — Herman Melville

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“Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.” — Francis Bacon

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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A new 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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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain

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“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.” — Harry S. Truman

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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Silence is the mother of truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” — William Blake

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“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

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“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“All truth is not to be told at all times.” — Samuel Butler

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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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