Aulus Gellius Quotes

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

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

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.” “His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?” Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.