Truths Quotes

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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
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. — Alexander MacLaren
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the… — John Herschel
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. — Jean Rostand
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...… — John Stuart Mill
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could… — Niels Bohr
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so. — Paul Valery
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race. — Jean Rostand
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell
Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are… — John Stuart Mill
Two truths cannot contradict one another. — Galileo Galilei

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