James Russell Lowell Quotes

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Truth casts a spell of its own.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

See now the power of truth.

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!