Truth Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

— Charles Caleb Colton

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good…

— Charles Caleb Colton

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have…

— Charles Caleb Colton