“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was one of those evenings when
“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
— Aldous Huxley
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
— Carl Jung
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In seeking truth you have to get
“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
— Walter Cronkite
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I was like a boy playing on
“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
— Isaac Newton
Author: Isaac Newton
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I know how easy it is for
“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words – and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.”
— Sidney Poitier
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The truth is, I often like women.
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
— Virginia Woolf
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A new scientific truth does not triumph
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
— Max Planck
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An error does not become truth by
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that
“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”
— Simone Weil
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to
“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.”
— Thomas Huxley
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