Noble Truth

Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or truth:

“This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,
That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte.
Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte,
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“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)