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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,… — Jack Kornfield
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction,… — Charles Spurgeon
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they… — Carl Sagan
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of… — Herbert Spencer
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths… — Gottfried Leibniz
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. — Elizabeth Goudge
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. — Samuel Johnson
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway… — Felix Frankfurter
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other… — Nikola Tesla
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths. — Claude Levi-Strauss
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up? — Jean Rostand
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan

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