“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Truth
Galileo Galilei on Science
Plato on Poetry
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” Continue reading
Thomas Sowell on Truth
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.” Continue reading
Bertrand Russell on Scepticism
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.” Continue reading
Thomas H. Huxley on Wisdom
“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.” Continue reading
Oscar Wilde on Truth
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” Continue reading
Mark Twain on Truth
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” Continue reading
Edward Teller on Science
“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.” Continue reading
Bertrand Russell on Mathematics
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.” Continue reading
George Orwell on Truth
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Continue reading
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