Truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion.

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one’s self.

The words “question” and “quest” are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

You can’t pray a lie.

Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.

IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE SINCERE UNLESS YOU ARE ALSO STUPID.

To thine ownself be true.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I’m not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if you butt your head against a stone wall long enough, at some point you realize the wall is stone and that your head is flesh and blood.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.