3 December 2020 Umberto Eco I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
3 December 2020 Moliere I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
3 December 2020 John Keats ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
3 December 2020 Bobby Darin Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That’s the truth. And on that note, I’ll say goodnight. God love you.
3 December 2020 George Washington Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
3 December 2020 Phil McGraw We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.
3 December 2020 Robert Brault Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one’s enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one’s friends.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
3 December 2020 Auguste Rodin To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina The truth is in California you can’t build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
