Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease read more

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. -Spinoza.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.

'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.

'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on read more

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for
the most part, refuse to be written.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for
the most part, refuse to be written.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing read more

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.