#ruth

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#curiosity #desire #motivated #primarily #scientist

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#away #dissolves #gold #like #strong

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#divine #pearl #precious #rich #swine

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#age

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #be original #become #been #before

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. ↗

— George Lloyd

#ancient greeks #greeks #knack #myths #truths

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#pursuit #source #such #truth

A beautiful thing is never perfect ↗

— egyptian proverb

#the-real-truth #beauty

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#back #getting #guess #i #image

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor. ↗

— Judith Malina

#how #know #look #many #me