Enduring Truths Quotes

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

There's an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be corny.

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon?

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.