John Milton Quotes, Truth Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

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Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

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I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

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Experience alone can decide on truth.

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Truth is the summit of being.

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

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A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

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Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

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