#truths

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. ↗

— Voltaire

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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ↗

— Rebecca West

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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#never #self-evident #shall #these #truths

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#end #more #specific #touching #truths

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here. ↗

— Tom Hopkins

#already #anyway #being #call #done

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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