Favorite Quotations
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Truth : A History and a Guide for the Perplexed
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ~ Flannery O'Connor Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. ~ Robert Fulghum The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. ~ Travis Walton The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. ~ Arthur C. Clarke Truth for authority, not authority for truth. ~ Lucretia Mott The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.~ G. C. Lichtenberg Tell all the Truth but tell it slant. ~ Emily Dickinson
"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth." ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck