#truths

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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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 weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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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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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe. ↗

— Joshua Willis Alexander

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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