“Speak your dreams, no one climbs a mountain accidentally.”
Vanderbilt Commencement Address (2011)
Source: Whose Body?
“Speak your dreams, no one climbs a mountain accidentally.”
Vanderbilt Commencement Address (2011)
“Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.”
Maxim 232
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“The dead may speak the truth only, even when it discredits themselves.”
The Golden Fleece (1944), Invocation.
General sources
“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”
Source: The Remains of the Day
“Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom”
Hilbert (2nd edition, 1996) by Constance Reid, p. 92
Context: But he (Galileo) was not an idiot,... Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom — that may be necessary in religion, but scientific results prove themselves in time.