"Sit down before fact as a little child,

be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,

follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads,

or you will learn nothing."

– Thomas Henry Huxley

"It is a great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all it's good dispositions." 

– Thomas Jefferson

"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully,

rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."

– Charles Edward Montague