Truth Quotes

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When truth is divided, errors multiply. — Eli Siegel
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and… — Alison Krauss
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of… — William Bayliss
When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one… — AndrÃ© Brink
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in… — H. P. Blavatsky
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of… — John Gorrie
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault
Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious. — David Brewster
The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored, depend upon its… — Jon Lord
We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides… — Stanford Moore
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane… — Scipione Breislak
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at… — Torbern Bergman
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so… — Elihu Thomson
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live… — Moses Harvey
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best… — Percy Williams Bridgman
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos
No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be,… — Rudolf Virchow
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert. — Gottlob Frege
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,… — Florence Bascom

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