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Quote 3616
That is to hear the better, my child.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3612
Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3605
I cannot, therefore, prove that my view of the good life is right; I can only state my view, and hope that as many as possible will agree.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3602
But if the belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, the pleasure is a stolen one.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3577
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3552
I have kept nothing of what I have said or written.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3524
A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3522
Books, on the other hand, of unusual and distinguished merit are despatched summarily in a few lines of equally undeserved depreciation.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3521
Books displaying in their writers the grossest ignorance of the very rudiments of the subjects treated, and literally swarming with blunders and absurdities, all of which pass undetected and unnoticed, are made the subjects of elaborate panegyrics.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3520
They will pose as authorities and pronounce ex cathedrâ on subjects literary, historical, and scientific of which they know nothing more than what they have contrived to pick up from the works which they are "reviewing."Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3519
They will sit in judgment on books written in languages of whose very alphabets they are ignorant.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3516
There it is worse than presumption to believe.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3515
It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3500
Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3399
I shall only add a promise to peruse your book dispassionately, and with a conviction that I shall find in it much to admire.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3388
I have collected many arguments for the purpose of refuting the latter; but I do not venture to bring them to the light of publicity, for fear of sharing the fate of our master, Copernicus, who, although he has earned immortal fame with some, yet with very many has become an object of ridicule and scorn.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3387
I count myself happy, in the search after truth, to have so great an ally as yourself, and one who is so great a friend of the truth itself.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3386
When we have the decrees of Nature, authority goes for nothing; reason is absolute.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3343
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3305
Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3278
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3249
The greatest friend of truth is Time; her greatest enemy is Prejudice.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 3208
Where thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth.by: William PennShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3201
Appearances are oft deceiving, and seeing shouldn't always be believing.by: MoliereShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3197
I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.by: Josh BillingsShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3162
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 3156
It is wrong always, everywhere and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 3141
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 3096
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 3039
A lie travels round the world, while truth is putting on her bootsShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2909
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtuesby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2906
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrantby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 2903
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglectedby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2899
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truthShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 2892
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starveShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2885
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new ageShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2865
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distortedShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 2789
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysicsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2785
The real truths are those that can be inventedby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 2731
I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must beby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2716
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2704
Beauty is truth, and truth is beautyby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2670
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches youShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2668
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternityShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2622
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 2464
The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 2292
Truth never hurts the tellerby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2289
But facts are facts and flinch notby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 2124
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believedby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2118
Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truthby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 2115
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immenseby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 2113
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 1790
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armiesby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 1710
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 1571
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 1457
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoesShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 1351
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything elseShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 1129
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it homeby: John Stuart MillShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 1078
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdomby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 1004
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.by: Jean Paul SartreShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 563
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbableShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 480
When in doubt tell the truthby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 457
The income tax has made more liars out of more Americans than golf has.by: Will RogersShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 432
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 367
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover themby: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 326
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.Showing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 317
Truth is more of a stranger than fictionby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 245
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the worldShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 175
Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to the truthShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 163
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess itShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 159
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.by: XenophonShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 157
If wou want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill youShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 153
Rumor grows while it goesby: VergilShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 149
Anything is better than lies and deceitby: Leo TolstoiShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 138
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second timeby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 134
If you are out to describe the truth, leave the elegance to the tailorby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 130
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselvesShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 129
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants onShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 127
... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truthShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 124
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine livesby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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Quote 123
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statisticsShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
Quote 120
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liarby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Truth and falsehood
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