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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
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A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
Laughing Matters Act one: Satire -
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
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But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
About the proof of Wilsons theorem. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) -
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
The World of Mathematics (1956) -
If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.
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In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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