Quotes
Quotes about Truth
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator Jesu et veritatis . . . potest se . . . elevare supra seipsum in spiritu.]
I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Or their dead selves to higher things.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Habit with him was all the test of truth; "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heartâthis is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal. -Mary Baker Eddy.
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. -Unknown-.
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
