975 private quotes tagged truth

“Half a truth is better than no politics.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” — Winston Churchill

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“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.” — Samuel Butler

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

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“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.” — Mason Cooley

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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” — Winston Churchill

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“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Adversity is the first path to truth.” — Lord Byron

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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand

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“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.” — E. O. Wilson

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

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“The object of the superior man is truth.” — Confucius

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“Half a truth is often a great lie.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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