Claims Quote by William James

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct…

— Aristotle

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

— John Gay

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the…

— Blaise Pascal

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

At times truth may not seem probable.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

— Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

— Winston Churchill

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great…

— John Arbuthnot

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened

— Hussein Nishah

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt