#truths

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

— Jean Cocteau

#having #only #right #say #them

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question. ↗

— James Collins

#help #i #know #large #large scale

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. ↗

— Robert Frost

#being #change #due #favor #life

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ashes #be true #dust #endure #facts

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fool #prerogative #speak #truths #utter

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#contingent #fact #impossible #kinds #necessary

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#found #ideas #into #necessary #ones

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#distorted #most #slightly #truths

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

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