John Milton Quotes

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Persecuted truth has triumphed everywhere over protected and powerful error.

The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.

What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn