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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

For a creative writer possession of the “truth” is less important than emotional sincerity.