975 private quotes tagged truth

“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.” — H. G. Wells

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“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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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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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?” — Jeanne Moreau

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“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.” — Yogi Berra

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

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“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.” — H. L. Mencken

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“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” — Stephen Fry

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“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” — Samuel Johnson

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“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” — Winston Churchill

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

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“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.” — George Eliot

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“In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.” — Albert Camus

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