Thomas Huxley Quotes about Truth

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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Thomas Huxley

Running, Truth, Honesty

Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.126, tredition

Veracity is the heart of morality.

Thomas Huxley

Truth, Honesty, Heart

Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

Truth, Humility, Fate

"The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' " (1880)

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Thomas Huxley

Trust, Time, Truth

Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

Truth, Lying, Science

'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species'

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

Thomas Huxley

Truth, Reflection, Light

Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

Thomas Huxley

Truth, Ideas, May

Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.157, Library of Alexandria