Truth Quotes — page 6

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a …

After two thousand years of incredulity, the truth in this matter was forced upon the scientific world about the beginning of the present century.

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

How my soul hates This language, Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity.

And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true.And when lying starts giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Hee that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas.

Such parents or children as aim at the gain and preferment of religion do often mistake gain and gold for godliness, godbelly for the true God, and some false for the true Lord Jesus.

BALTHAZAR: I have a private coat for Italian stilettos, I can be treacherous with the Walloon, drunk with the Dutch, a chimney-sweeper with the Irish, a gentleman with the Welsh and true arrant thief with the English. What then is my …

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously, the clearness of our mental vision.

The progress of man consists in this, that he himself arrives at the perception of truth.

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Through its teaching, through the philosophy which it has rendered accessible and intelligible to the modern mind, the West will learn to understand and appreciate the East at its true value. Further, the development of the psychic powers …

Then talk not of Inconstancy, False Hearts, and broken Vows; If I, by Miracle, can be This live-long Minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heav'n allows.

This short Supplication, or Litany, read When the longer with us is not wont to be said, Tho' brief in Expression, as fully imports The Will to all Blessings, for "Men of all Sorts," — Same brotherly Love, by which Christians are taught To …

A narrow room our glory vain upties, A little circle doth our pride contain, Earth like an isle amid the water lies, Which sea sometime is called, sometime the main, Yet naught therein responds a name so great, It's but a lake, a pond, a …

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

What of the tale of Balaam's ass speaking to him, probably in Hebrew? Is it true, or is it a fable? Many asses have spoken, and doubtless some in Hebrew, but they have not been that breed of asses. Is salvation to depend on a belief in a …

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts,

The strength of faith is... no proof of the objective truth of faith.

I am quite sick of the modern writers of ancient history, who think to make amends by their fine language for the total want of industry, truth and candour.

To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school, is to put a race horse in a mill.