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Truth Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like…
- No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this…
- It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it…
- My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
- Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am…
- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
- ...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for…
- We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me…
- Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
- It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second,…
- The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle.…
- I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to…
- I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is…
- After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov