Great Throughts Treasury

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Richard Whately

Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.

Character | Truth | Wishes |

Apocrypha NULL

Love truth and it will preserve you.

Love | Truth | Will | Wisdom |

Pietro Arentino

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Hate | Love | Truth | Wisdom |

Edwin Percy Whipple

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

Character | Dignity | Truth |

Henry Wotton, fully Sir Henry Wotton

How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another’s will; Whose armor is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill! Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,— What are you when the moon shall rise? An itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men’s stuff. Idle time not idly spent. Now all nature seemed in love, and birds had drawn their valentines.

Character | Happy | Nature | People | Skill | Thought | Time | Truth | Will |

John Stuart Blakie

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

Existence | Law | Order | Time | Truth | Wisdom |

William Beveridge

It calls in my spirits, composes my thoughts, delights my ear, recreates my mind, and so not only fits me for after business, but fills my heart, at the present, with pure and useful thoughts; so that when the music sounds the sweetliest in my ears, truth commonly flows the clearest into my mind.

Business | Heart | Mind | Music | Present | Truth | Wisdom |

George Bancroft

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Beauty | Justice | Law | Moral law | Soul | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

Events | Life | Life | Punishment | Suffering | Truth | Wisdom | Work | Learn |

Charlotte Joko Beck

Our life is always absolute: that’s all there is. The truth is not somewhere else. But we have minds that are trying to burn the past or the future. The living present - Buddhahood - is rarely encountered.

Absolute | Future | Life | Life | Past | Present | Truth | Wisdom |

James Beattie

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!

Love | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

Kenneth Eldon Bailey

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Doubt | Truth | Wisdom |

John Christian Bovee

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Fame | Truth | Wisdom | Words |

Andrew Brock, fully Andrew Clutton Brock

The universe is to be valued because there is truth in it and beauty in it; and we live to discover the truth and the beauty no less than to do what is right. Indeed, we can not attain to that state of mind in which we shall naturally do what is right unless we are aware of the truth and the beauty of the universe.

Beauty | Mind | Right | Truth | Universe | Wisdom | Beauty |

William Cullen Bryant

Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.

Truth | Wisdom | World |

Niels Bohr, fully Aage Niels Bohr

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Truth | Wisdom |