Thomas Huxley Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Humility, Fate

  "The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)

• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Lying, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species'

• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.126, tredition

• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Trust, Time, Truth

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

• Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Men, Done

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

• Veracity is the heart of morality.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

• To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Ideas, May

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.157, Library of Alexandria

• There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Reflection, Light

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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