Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)