Truth

About Truth

“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”
— Albert Einstein, in "My Credo", a speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932), as published in Einstein: A Life in Science (1994) by Michael White and John Gribbin, p. 262.
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
— John Locke, Letter to Anthony Collins (30 October 1703).
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
— George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".
“"It was as true," said Mr. Barkis,… "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1849-1850), Chapter XXI.
“Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.”
— John Tillotson, p. 603.

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