Truths Quotes
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... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.
Hannah Arendt
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
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One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.
Dana Gioia
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I began to be quite outrageous, and told him all I conceived of him; uttering several bold truths, not in the least to the advantage of his character.
Charlotte Charke
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue-eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, and practically every monarch or minister of consequence in Europe--not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.
Edmund Morris
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
Blaise Pascal
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.
Haruki Murakami
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
John Stuart Mill
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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
John Stuart Mill
