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- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
- Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861)
- Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- Great is truth, and all powerful.
- Vulgate
- In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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