Truth Quotes — page 87

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

But in this lies, perhaps, one of its strongest claims to the faith of mankind.

My dear, be a good man—be virtuous—be religious—be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow.

Here lies, on the small farthest beach, the Captain of the End.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie.

They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes …

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold Each ounce of dross …

If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. That is all.

It would seem that common sense and reason ought to find a way to reach agreement in every conflict of honest interests.

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.

Truly, if the preservation of all mankind, as much as in him lies, were every one's persuasion, as indeed it is every one's duty, and the true principle to regulate our religion, politicks and morality by, the world would be much quieter, …

This Self or this self-existent Being is the one supreme reality, and all things else are either only appearances or only true by dependence upon it. It follows that self-realisation and God-realisation are the great business of the living …

Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world Like one great garden show'd, And thro' the wreaths of floating dark up-curl'd, Rare sunrise flow'dAnd Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow, When rites and forms before …

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

And he saw that Youth, Of age and looks to be his own dear son, Piteous and lovely, lying on the sand, Like some rich hyacinth, which by the scythe Of an unskillful gardener has been cut, Mowing the garden grass-plots near its bed,

In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be …

Be to the best thou knowest ever true, Is all the creed