Reflecții și Maxime vol. I.

There are many ways to tell the truth.

The truth, even embarrassing, fortifies; uncertainty, even conciliatory, relaxes the springs.

No opinion in the world is entitled to respect just because it is an opinion... The only thing that should be respected is the truth.

Do not forge your word on the anvil of lies.

Truth is not imposed from without on minds which he must first make resemble the mind in which he was born.

The truth is worth spending a few years without finding.

The fact that the truth scandalizes is undoubtedly one of its charms.

Truth...all that is useful to the world and good in practice.

There are no specific truths. There is only one truth. When it is truly yours, it belongs to all men of good faith. Truth is truth only if it imposes itself with inner compulsion on all free-thinking intelligences. Truths that are only one's or a group's are not truths.

Until you speak, no one has business with you; but once you said - bring testimonies.

Tomorrow's truth feeds on yesterday's error, and the contradictions we must overcome are the very fertilizer of our growth.

Some claim to have found the truth; others dispute that it is possible to obtain it; and others seek him.

The liar's punishment is not that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone.

The truth is not always the same as your own opinion

The form of understanding by which everyone arrives at the truth is of no significance. There is no single way to a mystery like this

If a truth can be disputed at any time, the good faith of the one who established it must not be disputed.

When we realize the truth, our soul finds satisfaction even in its inadequacies and imperfections.

Truth can only be verified through opposition and obstacles.

The path to truth is strewn with errors. He who does not fall into them, touch them, struggle with them and finally overcome them with his own strength, does not reach the truth.

Tell the truth, and then you won't have to remember anything.

If you want to say big things, first learn never to say untrue things.

The truth is ashamed of one thing: to hide.

We say that a finding is true when it is not contradicted by other conclusions of experience or intelligence. An opinion becomes true when it can be unified, coordinated, harmonized in the general plane of intelligence.

Beauty is a stopping of the moment, it is the intense tasting of the rich fruit that the moment can bring us. Beauty is intrinsic... However, this is not the case with truth and goodness. Moral value is always asserted in relation to a purpose that serves someone, which by its existence transcends the very moment in which the value is embodied or felt... So it is with theoretical value, with truth. A truth is precious because it means a new stage, a gain of research, which can give a support point for further research. Truths add up, add up, grow, on their steps we move further, higher and further, as is not the case with intrinsic values, which cannot be added to each other, each representing a complete universe, a closed finality.

Beware of the liar who mixes a little truth into his lies.

Love the truth, but forgive error.

The truth... a fruit that must not be picked until it is ripe.

It is precisely the unanswered questions that prompt us to answer, precisely the unsolved problems that prompt us to solve them... This has always been the case, and even if after many efforts the sought truths were not found, other precious truths were found along this path ( or precious and sublime errors).

The logic of reality triumphs over the logic of theory.

Of nothing are men more convinced than of their false assertions. They love nothing more tenderly than their errors, and there is no surer means of incurring their aversion than by revealing to them a truth which they do not want to know.