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- Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
- Azel Backus
- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- Science is but the statement of truth found out.
- Coley
- All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
- Thomas Brackett Reed
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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