Quotes
Quotes about Truth
Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light, Where God speaks to Jones, In the very same tones, That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.
To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. [Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]
Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.
To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
But above all things truth is victor.
Great is truth, and strongest of all.
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]
At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
