"A man in the wrong may more..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.”
“Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.”
“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.”
More on Truth
“The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.”
“Mountain gorses, do ye teach us. . . .That the wisest word man reachesIs the humblest he can speak?”
“Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.”