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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.