Quotes
Quotes about Truth
Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply,--
"'T is man's perdition to be safe
When for the truth he ought to die."
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Justice is truth in action.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
The solitary monk who shook the world
From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
Thundered its challenge from his dauntless lips
In peals of truth.
For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
There are no birds in last year's nest!
God blesses still the generous thought,
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And Truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds.
Falsehoods which we spurn to-day
Were the truths of long ago.
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Oh would I were a boy again,
When life seemed formed of sunny years,
And all the heart then knew of pain
Was wept away in transient tears!
When every tale Hope whispered then,
My fancy deemed was only truth.
Oh, would that I could know again,
The happy visions of my youth.
Mohammed's truth lay in a holy Book,
Christ's in a sacred Life.
This truth within thy mind rehearse,
That in a boundless universe
Is boundless better, boundless worse.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
Mere white truth in simple nakedness.
No more subtle master under heaven
Than is the maiden passion for a maid,
Not only to keep down the base in man
But teach high thought and amiable words
And courtliness and the desire of fame
And love of truth and all that makes a man.
The golden guess
Is morning-star to the full round of truth.
Remember that sore saying spoken once
By Him that was the Truth, 'How hard it is
For the rich man to enter into heaven!'
Let all rich men remember that hard word.
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.
Truth is within ourselves.
The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.
