truth Quotes

“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“the fact that the intellect is not the most subtle, powerful and appropriate instrument for grasping the truth is only one more reason in favour of starting with the intellect rather than with the intuitions of the unconscious or with...”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

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“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty”

― Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

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“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of advantage that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love...”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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