Truth Quotes

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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...… — John Stuart Mill
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to… — Francis Bacon
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could… — Niels Bohr
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so. — Paul Valery
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. — Claude Bernard
The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated. — George Carlin
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race. — Jean Rostand
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. — Jean Rostand
To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism. — John F. Kennedy
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity… — John Milton
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified. — Niels Bohr
An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human… — Ambrose Bierce
Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are… — John Stuart Mill
Two truths cannot contradict one another. — Galileo Galilei
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause. — Aristotle
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and… — Blaise Pascal

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