“The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.”

“The great commandment of the narratives is that your life must be meaningful,” said Charon. “If knowing the truth strips the meaning away, then the truth must be suppressed.”

“The work of the world must still be done,
And minds are many though truth be one.”

“The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction … for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.”

“It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.”

“Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.”

“But if with your mind's eye you regard the absolute great and these many great things in the same way, will not another great appear beyond, by which all these must appear to be great?”

“Scientific truth, like puristic truth, must come about by controversy. Personally this view is abhorrent to me. It seems to mean that scientific truth must transcend the individual, that the best hope of science lies in its greatest minds being often brilliantly and determinedly wrong, but in opposition, with some third, eclectically minded, middle-of-the-road nonentity seizing the prize while the great fight for it, running off with it, and sticking it into a textbook for sophomores written from no point of view and in defense of nothing whatsoever. I hate this view, for it is not dramatic and it is not fair; and yet I believe that it is the verdict of the history of science.”