Quotes
Quotes about Truth
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreterâ often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreterâin the eye.
The plastic virtues: Purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himselfâ ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanityâ before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. â¢Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. â¢Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. â¢Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.
Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth; If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth, Or in the desert heard the camel's bell, You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.
Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro, Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or that individual statesman or group of statesmen. Idealists make a great mistake in not facing the real facts sincerely and resolutely. They believe in the power of the spirit, in the goodness which is at the heart of things, in the triumph which is in store for the great moral ideals of the race. But this great faith only too often leads to an optimism which is sadly and fatally at variance with actual results. It is the realist and not the idealist who is generally justified by events. We forget that the human spirit, the spirit of goodness and truth in the world, is still only an infant crying in the night, and that the struggle with darkness is as yet mostly an unequal struggle. . . . Paris proved this terrible truth once more. It was not Wilson who failed there, but humanity itself. It was not the statesmen that failed, so much as the spirit of the peoples behind them.
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not.
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
