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.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not read more

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid read more

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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.