Francis Bacon Quotes, Fashion Quotes, Truth Quotes

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

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May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

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Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated

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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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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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