“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.”
Truth is simple in theory and messy in practice. These quotes tackle honesty, deception, self-awareness, and the uncomfortable reality that the truths most worth hearing are usually the ones you least want to hear.
“I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.”
“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.”
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”
“Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.”
“I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.”
“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
“Humility is truth.”
“Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”
“Ideas are, in truth, force.”
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.”
“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.”
“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”
“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”