Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Truth may lie in laughter, and wisdom in a jest. Dr. W. Smith.

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a 30 pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. Bacon.

Truth, or clothed or naked let it be. Tennyson.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert. Bp. Wilson.

Truth reaches her full action by degrees, and not at once. Draper.

Truth, says Horne Tooke, means simply the thing trowed, the thing believed; and now, from this to the thing itself, what a new fatal deduction have we to suffer. Carlyle.

Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere 35 at its first appearance. Locke.

Truth seeks no corners. Pr.

Truth shines with its own light; it is not by the flames of funeral piles that the minds of men are illuminated. Belisarius.

Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. Chapin.