975 private quotes tagged truth

“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.” — William Butler Yeats

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“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I say that justice is truth in action.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” — Francis Bacon

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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.” — Francis Bacon

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“Too much truth is uncouth.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” — Blaise Pascal

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“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” — Thomas Carlyle

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“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” — Thomas Paine

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“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.” — Thomas Moore

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“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.” — Pablo Picasso

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“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.” — Voltaire

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“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” — Walt Whitman

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“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.” — Mason Cooley

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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.” — Samuel Butler

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“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.” — Sophocles

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“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” — Aristotle

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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.” — Victor Hugo

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