Wisdom and Truth
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." -- Woody Allen
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." --Adouls Huxley
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." --Churchill
"The words "I am..." are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." --A. K. Kitselman
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."--Andre Gide
"It is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."-- Unknown
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." --Henri-Louis Bergson
"There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge." --Roger Bacon
"Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. " --Colton
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