#truth

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. ↗

— Holly Near

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth. ↗

— Arthur C. Nielsen

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You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody. ↗

— Trey Parker

#baseball #beating #crazy #enjoy #everyone

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large. ↗

— Chris Patten

#business #do the right thing #good #great #large

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth." "No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it." "And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?" Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing. ↗

— Iain Pears

#enlightenment #fear #mankind #philosophy #soul

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves