Quotes About Truth

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.

Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.

Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.