“ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ”
- Ivan Panin- Copy
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“ Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ”
- John Adams- Copy
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“ The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
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“ Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. ”
- Charles Gordon- Copy
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“ Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. ”
- Émile Zola- Copy
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“ God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth. ”
- George Crabbe- Copy
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“ I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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“ Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ I often wish… that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ”
- Bliss Carman- Copy
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“ Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. ”
- Dr. Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. ”
- Norman Angell- Copy
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“ The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ”
- Frederick The Great- Copy
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“ As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, "What is truth?". ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
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