Truth Quotes
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A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.
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When two hypotheses are possible, we provisionally choose that which our minds adjudge to be simpler, on the supposition that this is the more likely to lead in the direction of truth. It includes as a special case the principle of Occam's razor-entia non multiplicana praeter necessitatem.
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She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.
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I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
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To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
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More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.
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To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.
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A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.
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To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
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The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
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Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.
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I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
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An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.
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The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man's desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.
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It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
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'Believe what you like. You'll be surprised how comforting it is.''I ask no comfort,' Taran replied, 'but the truth, be it harsh or happy.'
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The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.
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I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.
