Truths Quotes

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Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth… — Isaac Watts
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of… — Mark Twain
Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim -. . . for discovery… — Margaret Caroline Anderson
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives… — John Silber
The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom… — Frederick Osborn
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little… — Immanuel Kant
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us… — Gottfried Leibniz
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until… — Gottfried Leibniz
"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic,… — Ken Wilber
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. — Chiang Kai-shek
If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only… — Laozi
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you… — Feist
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths. — Anatoly Karpov
The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths. — Faith Popcorn
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that… — Edward Tufte
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were… — Mary Schmich
The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having… — Simon Greenleaf
Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep… — Wilfred Owen

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