Echoes

Source

Henry David Thoreau

1842

“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.”

Francis Bacon

·1620

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Aristotle

·-350 AD

In every systematic inquiry where there are first principles, or causes, or elements, knowledge and science result from acquiring knowledge of these.

Richard Feynman

·1965

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

Ernest Hemingway

·1964·Paris, France

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

Alfred Adler

·1930

Man knows much more than he understands.

Heraclitus

·-500 AD

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Galileo Galilei

·1600

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

Simone Weil

·1947

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

Leonardo da Vinci

·1510·Milan

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Isaac Newton

·1727

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

Isaac Newton

·1660

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

·1841

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Galileo Galilei

·1615

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

·1886

Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations...