Quotes
Quotes about Truth
And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Sell cheap and tell the truth.
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me. David McArthur & Bruce McArthur -Sara Paddison.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt: Where amity is ty'd with band of truth, All benefits are there in common set.
Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day--some sweet day.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
