In search of Truth

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

~ George Washington

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

~ Anaïs Nin

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

~ Galileo Galilei

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

~ Boris Pasternak