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Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.
Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.
I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.
All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.
Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.