LOWELL

Whatever we have dared to think,

That dare we also say.

HOOKER

Independence of mind, freedom from a slavish respect to the taste and opinion of others, next to goodness of heart, will best ensure our happiness in the conduct of life.

CARLYLE

A man's honest, earnest opinion is the most precious of all he possesses let him communicate this if he is to communicate anything.

HIGGINSON

Above all thought rises the freedom to think: above all utterance ranks the liberty to utter.

EURIPIDES

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

BURNS.

Here's a health to him that would read,

Here's a health to him that would write;

There is none ever feared that the truth should be heard

But him whom the truth would indict.

ANTISTHENES.

The most needful piece of learning for the uses of Life is to unlearn what is untrue.

BUDDHA.

The Truth is not a matter of opinion, but can be investigated.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

There cannot be better service done to Truth than to purge it of all things spurious.

MONTAIGNE.

It is not so much things that torment man as the opinion he has of things.

LUCIAN.

Never profess to believe what we know we do not believe.

GOETHE.

Why is it that men are nettled on being shown the truth?

SHELLEY.

Let us see the Truth whatever that may be.

BULWER.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

BENJAMIN RUSH, M.D.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

BUNDERLIN.

Our only duty towards those who differ from us is to teach them gently.

MICHAEL FARADAY.

The philosopher should be a man willing to hear every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself.

ST. JEROME.

If an offence come out of the truth, better is it that the offence come than the truth be concealed.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

I do not fear skepticism for any good soul.

A just thinker will allow full sway to his skepticism.

CUVIER.

The good that we do men, however great it may be, is but transitory; the truths we bequeath them are eternal.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRES. U.S.A.

In the long run the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

CICERO.

Before all things, man is distinguished by his pursuit, and investigation of truth.

MILTON.

Let truth and falsehood grapple.

Whoever knew Truth put to

the worse in a free and open encounter?

HERBERT.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; a fault which needs it most

grows two thereby.

VOLTAIRE.

I believe it because I have said it, is the motto of mankind. They repeat an absurdity, and by dint of repeating it, come to be persuaded of it.

PLATO.

If I appear to say anything true, assent to it, but if not, oppose me, that in my zeal I may not deceive both you and myself and, like a bee, leaving only my sting behind.

GEORGE ELIOT.

It is possible to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

RICHARD HOOKER, D.D.

Being persuaded of nothing more than this, that whether it be in matters of speculation or of practice, no untruth can possibly avail the patron and defender long, and that things most truly are likewise most behoovefully spoken.

RICHARD STEELE.

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.

From Diognetus I learned to endure freedom of speech.

SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

BUCKLE.

No man is true to himself who fears to express his opinion.

LOWELL.

And for success, I ask no more than this,—to bear unflinching witness to the truth.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, M.D.

Rough work, Iconoclasm, but the only way to get at Truth.

PROF. EDWARD CLODD.

As if any reform was ever instituted or abuse swept away without wounding some ignorant or bigoted person's susceptibilities!

ESDRAS.

As for truth, it endureth and is always strong; it liveth and conquereth forever more.

HELVETIUS.

If we would be sure of the truth of our opinions, we should make them public.