975 private quotes tagged truth

“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

“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”— Hypatia

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.”— Phil McGraw

“Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.”— Bryant H. McGill

“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”— John Greenleaf Whittier

“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.”— Bayard Rustin

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”— Virginia Woolf

“Veiling truth in mystery.”— Virgil

“The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.”— Henry Louis Gates

“There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.”— Maureen O'Hara

“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.”— Shunryu Suzuki

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”— Flannery O'Connor

“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.”— Steven Biko

“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.”— Morihei Ueshiba

“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”— Giordano Bruno

“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.”— Beth Ditto

“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.”— Henri Frederic Amiel

“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”— Fernando Flores

“Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.”— Karl Von Clausewitz

“The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”— Joseph Conrad

“While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.”— Al Gore

“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?”— Dick Clark

“My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'”— Pink