#truths

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

— William James

#enemy #greatest #may #our #rest

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#customary #end #fate #heresies #new

There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe. ↗

— Joshua Willis Alexander

#deny #fully #great #many #nevertheless

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#great #love #poets #tell #them

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#being #established #ever #few #ideas

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#common #everyday #indifferent #likely #only

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#able #actual #comics #comment #decade

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#having #only #right #say #them

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, I as sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#truths #death

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ↗

— Frederick II

#greatest #new #next #noblest #off