Truths that wake,
To perish never. [ Wordsworth ]
All truths are not to be told. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The usefulest truths are the plainest. [ Proverb ]
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,
Needs only to be seen to be admired. [ Cowper ]
Ink was invented to make words living truths. [ W. Caxton ]
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. [ Philip J. Bailey ]
The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered. [ Butler ]
Wise books for half the truths they hold are honored tombs. [ George Eliot ]
Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food. [ Ward Beecher ]
Falsehoods which we spurn today were the truths of long ago. [ Whittier ]
Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. [ Lava ter ]
Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
In this world, one must put cloaks on all truths, even the nicest. [ Balzac ]
All truths are not to be uttered; still it is always good to hear them. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. [ Daniel Webster ]
Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day. [ Thackeray ]
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are the portions of eternity. [ Lowell ]
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie: he has to, to make the lie good for anything. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie. [ John Ruskin ]
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. [ Horace Mann ]
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home. [ J. S. Mill ]
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, - of dwarfs giants, suspicions truths. [ Cervantes ]
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. [ Dr. Johnson ]
All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses. [ Theodore Parker ]
The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. [ Carlyle ]
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]
The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty; and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire. [ Channing ]
I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast. [ Goldsmith ]
I consider the study of mathematics the basis of the soundest mode of reasoning, the foundation of metaphysical deductions; it contains eternal truths, concluded by pure intelligence. [ Sir R. Maltravers ]
Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. [ Phillips Brooks ]
We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [ Thomas Jefferson ]
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. [ Beecher ]
All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers who do nothing else than repeat backwards and forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, and the truths already printed, we may term plagiarists: but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others would also read the man. [ Disraeli ]
Addison acknowledged that he would rather inform than divert his reader; but he recollected that a man must be familiar with wisdom before he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus. Fiction allures him to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. [ Willmott ]
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. [ Ruskin ]
There are chords in the human heart - strange varying strings - which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view. [ Dickens ]