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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ↗

— Aristotle

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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. ↗

— Aristotle

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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. ↗

— Mary Astell

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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There is no original truth, only original error. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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