Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)