Quotes
Quotes about Truth
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.
From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.
"Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors."
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest, For time will teach thee soon the truth, "There are no birds in last year's nest."
'Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear The living degradation we may know If we do dread death for a sacred cause?
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
Facts often contradict with truths.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
