Truth Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all…

— Henry Ward Beecher

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit,…

— Henry Ward Beecher