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truth hideous
The truth--a hideous spectacle! Conrad Aiken
truth honesty lying
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. Sydney J. Harris
truth mistake believe
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 science fool
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. Neil Gaiman
truth lines way
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. John Tillotson
truth lying men
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
truth truth-is whole
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole. John Sterling
truth patents scales
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
truth liars writing
There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates. Marie Corelli
science power wit
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. Francis Bacon
science branches curious
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. Ernst Mayr
science men gnats
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable. Henry David Thoreau
science fiction would-be
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out. Robert Sheckley
science moon light
... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other? William Herschel
science sky memorial
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
science space mystery
I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
science execution genius
Execution is the chariot of genius. William Blake
science age earth
Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. William Cowper
fool genius plans
A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan. T. Boone Pickens