Quotes on “truth”

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.