Daughter Quote by Aulus Gellius

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

— Abraham Lincoln

Truth is the daughter of time.

— Aulus Gellius

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a…

— Eavan Boland

“In olden days people said, ‘The father knows his son, the mother, her daughter.”

— Shin Jae

“Poets only write the truth.”

— Shannon Lynette

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

This is truth the poet sings . . .

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old…

— Daphne du Maurier

“When a poet speaks of truth to another poet, what hope has truth?”

— Steven Erikson