#truth

It is not truth that matters, but victory. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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All great truths begin as blasphemies. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#great #truths

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

#christian #conscience #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #organized-religion

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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Tell the children the truth. ↗

— Bob Marley

#tell #truth

Half a truth is better than no politics. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Exactitude is not truth. ↗

— Henri Matisse

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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