Tryon Edwards: Quotes about the truth

Tryon Edwards was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on truth.
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“Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 225.

Truth , Hell , Season

“Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 20.

Truth

“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 464.

Children , Truth , Books , Family

“Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 3.

Truth

“Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end. – 'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 115.

Truth

“Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 162.

Truth

“He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 438.

Truth , Error

“Ridicule may be the evidence of wit or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 497.

Truth

“Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end.”

Tryon Edwards

'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.'
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 115.

Truth