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Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth. — George Perkins Marsh
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth. — Miguel de Unamuno
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… — Werner Heisenberg
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in… — Roger Bacon
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though… — John Herschel
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow.… — Sharon Salzberg
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth… — Charles Caleb Colton
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to… — Walter Raleigh
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the… — Miguel de Cervantes
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. — Baltasar Gracian
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that… — Denis Waitley
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a… — James Madison
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More… — Thomas Jefferson
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the… — Charles Lamb
Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God. — Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth. — Sri Chinmoy
I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me… — Lady Gaga

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