Quotes 41 till 60 of 66.
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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
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The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
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The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
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The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.
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The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
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We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
― Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987) -
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
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