To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of
the demand.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of
the demand.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or read more

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim read more

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]

If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]