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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#both #creation #development #every #his

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ↗

— Stephen Baker

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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#crutch #desirable #divested #frightening #more

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#hearing #people #platitude #repeated #simply

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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Error is always more busy than truth. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

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