975 private quotes tagged truth

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

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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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“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.” — Albert Camus

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“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.” — Will Rogers

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

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“Science is but an image of the truth.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“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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“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” — Winston Churchill

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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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“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” — George Eliot

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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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