“Truth is powerful and it prevails.” ~~ Sojourner Truth
Truth
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” ~~ Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” ~~ Virginia Woolf
“Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.” ~~ Louisa May Alcott
“A lie can travel halfway ’round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~~ Mark Twain
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” ~~ Charles Dickens, “The Tale of Two Cities”
“Words are often like buoys. They tell others where we are but little of what lies below.” ~~ Noah benShea
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” ~~ Elvis Presley