975 private quotes tagged truth

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.”— Robert M. Pirsig

“Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.”— Hu Shih

“The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.”— Richard Roeper

“I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.”— Kelly Miller

“I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.”— Kevin O'Leary

“Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.”— Jean Claude Van Damme

“In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.”— A. Philip Randolph

“To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.”— Jonathan Frid

“The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.”— Jack Kemp

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”— Katherine Mansfield

“When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.”— Barry White

“Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.”— James Broughton

“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”— Benito Mussolini

“To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.”— Novalis

“Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!”— Jonathan Davis

“Truth is exact correspondence with reality.”— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”— Denis Diderot

“I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.”— Audre Lorde

“Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!”— Swami Sivananda

“Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.”— Miriam Makeba

“I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”— Adlai Stevenson

“I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.”— Brad Pitt

“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”— John Dryden

“To tell the truth is revolutionary.”— Antonio Gramsci

“Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”— Jawaharlal Nehru