#truths

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#change #takes #talking #then #truths

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#brought #cannot #full #home #many

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. ↗

— Kenneth Miller

#air #communicate #means #metal #piano

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#crop #dazzling #devices #every #miraculous

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. ↗

— William Herschel

#confirming #contained #discoveries #high #human

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#among #certain #created #creator #endowed

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#cover #feel #least #little #little bit

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ↗

— William James

#enemy #greatest #may #our #rest