Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
You can’t cheat an honest man.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.
Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
I think, therefore I am.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.