If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advancement.
-Orville Wright
Quotations
Truth
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
-Akhenation "Akhenation, 14 century Egyptian king"
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
