Tryon Edwards: Quotes about the truth

Tryon Edwards was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on truth.

Tryon Edwards: 114 quotes6 likes

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

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

“Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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