Great Truths Quotes

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

When, as President Joseph F. Smith said, we "catch a spark from the awakened memories of the immortal soul, "let us be quietly grateful. When of great truths we can say "I know," that powerful spiritual witness may also carry with it the sense of our having known before. With rediscovery, we are really saying "I know - again!"

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos does not seem terribly radical to me, nor does the notion that we could be receiving help from outside of our dimension.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.