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Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until… — Frank Herbert
Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the… — John Gresham Machen
That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself… — Robert Kegan
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any… — Mahatma Gandhi
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be… — Henry David Thoreau
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance. — Frederick Douglass
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means… — Galileo Galilei
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. — George Bernard Shaw
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Truths may clash without contradicting each other. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change. — Walter Lippmann
There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable. — Gore Vidal
Music tells no truths. — Philip James Bailey
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish… — Romain Rolland
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. — Antonio Porchia
I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet. — Seneca the Younger
As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths. — Philibert Joseph Roux

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