
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
As quoted in The Histories by Herodotus, 3.72
The validity of the quote is questionable. http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Heropers.html
Attributed
The Ethics of Belief (1877), The Limits Of Inference
Context: p>We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know. We may believe the statement of another person, when there is reasonable ground for supposing that he knows the matter of which he speaks, and that he is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence; and where it is presumption to doubt and to investigate, there it is worse than presumption to believe.</p
“Generally speaking, I belong to the optimist camp.”
Source: "China and US economies 'inseparable,' Wang Qishan tells Davos" in Nikkei Asia https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/China-and-US-economies-inseparable-Wang-Qishan-tells-Davos (24 January 2019)