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There is no such thing as a harmless truth. ↗

— Gregory Nunn

#such #thing #truth

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#getting #hold #makes #rid #than

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at? ↗

— George Byron

#got #how #made #opinions #truth

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#distorted #distorts #essential #forms #life

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#analytical #consciences #directing #mysterious #people

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. ↗

— Lactantius

#divine #give #homer #human #information

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. ↗

— Lactantius

#authority #because #believed #come #fiction

The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#matter #money #only #output #reduces

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#energy #even #faith #judging #lies

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#also #am #aunts #cousins #daughter