Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.

But if you want to know the truth the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers but by preconceived opinion by prejudice.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.