Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
- Lord Hailshan
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
- Robert Heinlein
...truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth
- Thomas Jefferson
We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
- Henry David Thoreau
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe...till we come to the hard bottom of rocks in place, which we can call reality.
- Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth against the world.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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