A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Alan Shepard

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

Thérèse of Lisieux

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

George Herbert

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

Michael Elliott

To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.

Frederick Lenz

In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.

Charles Kingsley

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Crais

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

Julia Ward Howe

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

James Connolly

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

Frederick Lenz

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

Gretel Ehrlich

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.