Useful Truth Quotes
- It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth… — Samuel Johnson
- You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on. — Benjamin Franklin
- I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being… — John Updike
- Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to… — Geoffrey Chaucer