Echoes

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Exactitude is not truth.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

It is the nature of human affairs to be fraught with anxiety; they never prosper perfectly, and they never remain constant.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but truth is a greater friend.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

An honest man is always a child.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.