Benjamin Disraeli - Truth Quotes

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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

Benjamin Disraeli
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England [sic]. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli
I remember—the interruption of the hon. Gentleman reminds me of the words of a great writer, who said that "Grace was beauty in action." 'Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Truth should animate an opposition, and I hope it does animate this opposition.;

Benjamin Disraeli
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli
Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli