#truths

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#change #takes #talking #then #truths

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. ↗

— Kenneth Miller

#air #communicate #means #metal #piano

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

— Kary Mullis

#crop #dazzling #devices #every #miraculous

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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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ↗

— William James

#enemy #greatest #may #our #rest

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#care #context #economic #economy #general