All 78,476 Quotes


Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma Gandhi on truth

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran on truth

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone on truth

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius on truth

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy on truth

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche on truth

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

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Khalil Gibran on truth

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche on truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on truth

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

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran on truth

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya on truth

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on truth

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

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche on truth

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 on truth

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Khalil Gibran on truth

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle on truth

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche on truth