James Russell Lowell Quotes About Truth

• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Lying, Different Faces

  James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,-
  Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown,
  Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Shadow

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

• La verdad, después de todo, tiene una cara diferente para cada uno, y sería demasiado tedioso esperar a que todos estuvieran de acuerdo.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Truth, Agreement

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

• Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
  In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
  Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Light

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

• Quien dice la verdad apuñala la falsedad en el corazón.

  James Russell Lowell

  Verdad, Honestidad, Corazón

  James Russell Lowell (1871). "The poetical works of James Russell Lowell", p.116

• Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Truth, Men

• Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Bravery

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

• El mayor homenaje que podemos rendir a la verdad es utilizarla.

  James Russell Lowell

  Verdad, honradez, integridad

• Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Truth, War

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Thrones

  "The Present Crisis" st. 8 (1845)

• For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Naked

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.117

• Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Taste, Tongue

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.107

• Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Memories, Men

  James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind The Curtain”

• Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like
  A star new-born that drops into its place
  And which, once circling in its placid round,
  Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

  James Russell Lowell

  Stars, Truth, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.175

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