“We’ve learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature’s phenomena will agree or they’ll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven’t tried to be very careful in this kind of work.”
— Richard Feynman“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
— Benjamin Franklin“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
— Richard Feynman“The sting of a reproach is the truth of it.”
— Benjamin Franklin“By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.”
— Richard Feynman“Observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.”
— Richard Feynman“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”
— Benjamin Franklin“Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.”
— Ayn Rand“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
— Benjamin Franklin“The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.”
— Richard Feynman“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
— Ernest Hemingway“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
— Leonardo da Vinci“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”
— Benjamin Franklin“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.”
— Albert Einstein“Truth is our element of life, yet if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth, and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself, but falsehood.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”
— Ernest Hemingway“For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“It is interesting that human relationships, if there is an independent way of judging truth, can become unargumentative.”
— Richard Feynman“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
— Ayn Rand“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
— Marie CurieScience Honesty Lies Writing Courage