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title: "6 Notion Truth Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [ “\[...\] provability is a weaker notion than truth” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-r-hofstadter/provability-is-a-weaker-notion-than-truth/)

[Douglas R. Hofstadter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-r-hofstadter/)

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> [“...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/reality-is-a-system-completely-ordered-and-fully-intelligible-with/)

[Brand Blanshard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brand-blanshard/)

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> [It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-leigh/it-s-important-to-be-true-to-the-events-but-the-most-important-thing/)

[Mike Leigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-leigh/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca9/mike-leigh-9087_academic_it-s-important-to-be-true-to-the-events_1736200.jpg)

> [To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-handey/to-me-truth-is-not-some-vague-foggy-notion-truth-is-real-and-at-the/)

[Jack Handey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-handey/)

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> [The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/the-scripture-notion-of-truth-is-not-an-abstract-static-and-timeless/)

[Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/)

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> [“It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/it-never-occurs-to-most-of-us-that-the-question-what-is-the-truth-is/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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