Truth Quotes — page 19

If they packed our remains in, shattered into a mass of animated gore to Mansfield, they would have got great praise and credit as well as promotion but I am reconed a horrid brute because I had not been cowardly enough to lie down for …

True devotion will rather ask to be allowed to give, and will count as loss all which may not be given up for the Lord’s sake.

There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do …

Man is his own star, and that soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

I believe it is absolutely true that for the peace of Europe good relations between France and Germany are the key to the situation. It should be the business of the British Government not to take a side with France or with Germany, but to …

The men on the Dauntless have disliked the Sea Girl's crew ever since our skipper took their captain to a cleaning on the wharfs of Zanzibar—them being narrow-minded that way. They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his …

If Germany, still obsessed by her traditional militarism, persists in her Deutschland über Alles, well—let the die be cast. We shall take up the atrocious War again at the point where we left it off. We must have the courage to prepare for …

Truth does not need to borrow garments from error. (Also translated as: Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.)

Augustine said that God created the universe new every day: and to the living, emotional soul, this is true.

The Beauty which old Greece or Rome Sung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

Never was there a more perfect demonstration of the truth asserted by Daniel Webster, that, of all contrivances for defrauding the working people of a country, arbitrary issues of paper money are the most effective.

For it has been truly observed by a great philosopher, that truth does more easily emerge out of error than confusion.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

Men are not ‘born entitled to equal right! It would be far nearer the truth to say, ‘that some were born with saddles on their backs, and others booted and spurred to ride them’—and the riding does them good.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

We are going to be posted all round the shores as a guard upon them, and in that state to wait for the return of the fleet, which, by the by, I think will not be in a hurry. It is reported that Lord Howe arrived last night with his fleet …

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

Pythagoras found out the true ratio between the sound of Strings and the Weights fasten'd to them.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view.

Me, guilty me, make me your aim, O Rutules! mine is all the blame; He did no wrong, nor e'er could do; That sky, those stars attest 'tis true; Love for his friend too freely shown, This was his crime, and this alone.

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.