Truth

“金玉其外、敗絮其中”

“Better to be late and right. Better to be late and right and transparent about how you got there.”

“If you believe in something, don’t give up on it until you understand why that belief is wrong.”

“من قال إن حقيقة الوجود الحق هي جميع المخلوقات والمخلوقين فهو من الزنادقة الملحدين”

“Yes, I use a great many quotations; but they are illustrious and true, and, if I am not mistaken, they convey authority pleasurably.”

“It’s essential that we govern on the basis of science and not science fiction.”

“See you, one should not ask for outside proof — no, reason should be enough.”

“It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.”

“They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight.”

“Let them respect my convictions, and I will respect theirs!”