“It is best not to go on for great quest for truth, it will only make you miserable”
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René Descartes 47
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist 1596–1650Related quotes
“The truth will set you free — but first it will make you miserable.”
James A. Garfield
(1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s. The earliest discovered citation is a poster in a residential treatment program for alcoholics in Syracuse, New York, [ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/04/truth-free/ described in a 1978 newspaper article]. Another early publication is is found in Pinochet's Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5
Misattributed
“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.”
Richard Rohr
(1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
William Alfred Fowler
(1911–1995) American nuclear physicist
William A. Fowler's speech at the Nobel Banquet http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1983/fowler-speech.html, December 10, 1983.
“It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.”
Confucius
(-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
As quoted in The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang, p. v
Attributed
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations (2000), p. 227
Source: The Life of the Mind (1971/1978), p. 15.
“Second is best because God rewards the quest.”
Kip McKean
(1954) minister
In his sermon, The Promised Land On The Second Try, World Missions Jubilee 2010, Sunday August 8, 2012
International Christian Church (2006-present)
