Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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