Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
