#truths

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#had #i #lot #more #than

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

#am #conscious #go #human #human nature

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

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