“It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.” MadeUsePurposeLanguageMankindHorrorTruth IsMereAncestorInterfereMaliceIncompetence Author:Chinua Achebe
“The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.” IfsRealPiecesObjectsTruth IsLuckMereConvictionGroundedReal Things Book:Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes) Source: Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)
“The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.” MenKindInspirationTruthPossibilityHigherTruth IsGloryGainsExcellenceMerePursuitOpeningSwingsGymnastics Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin