Quotes

[Galahad]

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

- Oscar Wilde

 

[Galahad]

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

- Pete Seeger

 

[Galahad]

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

- Vernon Cooper

 

[Galahad]

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

- Abraham Lincoln

 

[Galahad]

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

- Abraham Lincoln

 

[Galahad]

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news

- Adrienne Rich

 

[Galahad]

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

- Albert Einstein

 

[Galahad]

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

- Albert Einstein

 

[Galahad]

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

- Alfred North Whitehead

 

[Galahad]

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

- Anais Nin

 

[Galahad]

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

- Anais Nin

 

[Galahad]

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

- Andre Gide

 

[Galahad]

Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

 

[Galahad]

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

- Benjamin Disraeli

 

[Galahad]

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

- Christopher Morley

 

[Galahad]

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

- Clarence Darrow

 

[Galahad]

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

 

[Galahad]

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

- Demosthenes

 

[Galahad]

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

- Dorothy Thompson

 

[Galahad]

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

- Dorothy Thompson