Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy

The way to become boring is to say everything. -Voltaire

All art is selected details. -Paul Cezanne

The words of truth are always paradoxical. -Lao Tzu

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. -Samuel Johnson

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. -Albert Einstein

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Talmudic Saying

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. - Michelangelo

There is no great beauty that hath not some strangeness to the proportion. -William Blake

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. -Marcus Aurelius

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. -Albert Camus, French writer

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon

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