Truth

A lie travels round the world, while truth is putting on her boots

I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.

Appearances are oft deceiving, and seeing shouldn't always be believing.

Inquiry is human, blind obedience brutal.

Where thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth.

That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute.

The greatest friend of truth is Time; her greatest enemy is Prejudice.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.

There is no effort without error and shortcoming.

Whatsoever doth happen in the world, doth happen justly.

Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

I cannot admit that they are living the good life.

When we have the decrees of Nature, authority goes for nothing; reason is absolute.

I count myself happy, in the search after truth, to have so great an ally as yourself, and one who is so great a friend of the truth itself.

I have collected many arguments for the purpose of refuting the latter; but I do not venture to bring them to the light of publicity, for fear of sharing the fate of our master, Copernicus, who, although he has earned immortal fame with some, yet with very many has become an object of ridicule and scorn.

This sort of men fancied that philosophy was to be studied like the Aeneid or Odyssey, and that the true reading of nature was to be detected by the collation of texts.

I shall only add a promise to peruse your book dispassionately, and with a conviction that I shall find in it much to admire.