Character Quote by William M. Evarts Download Open image “Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.” — William M. Evarts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Gravitation Materials Moral Truth is World
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is the standard of sentiment. Propositions in geometry may be proved, systems in physics may be controverted; but the harmony of verse, the tenderness of passion, the brilliancy of wit, must give immediate pleasure. No man… — David Hume Copy Share
“Truth is not an opinion. It’s a force like gravity. It’s the most valuable substance known to man.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does… — Francis William Newman Copy Share Image
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it. — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
