Laozi Quotes, Truth Quotes, Doubt Quotes

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

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...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Truth Quotes , Real Quotes

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Truth Quotes , Men Quotes

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

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Experience alone can decide on truth.

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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Honesty Quotes

Truth - is as old as God-.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Truth Quotes

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Truth Quotes

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Tides Quotes

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Truth Quotes , Fire Quotes

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Fiction Quotes

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Truth Quotes , Statistics Quotes

By doubting we come at truth.

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As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Truth Quotes , Science Quotes

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Love Quotes , Truth Quotes

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Truth Quotes , Desire Quotes