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“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”
Gilbert K Chesterton
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”
“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”
“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”
“It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”
The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Freddie Mercury
But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn’t always have a lot to do with objective truth
Stephen King
Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice.
Albert Einstein
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.