Quotes by Truth The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event. C. S. Lewis truthlawrunning Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists. Calvin S. Hall truthrealitythinking I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour sarcastictruthart You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. Carl Bernstein lineshonestytruth If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. Carl Friedrich Gauss truthdiscoveryscience When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. Carl Friedrich Gauss cornyphilosophertruth We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth. Carl Jung truthwisephilosophy We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung wisdomtruthfun The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung abilityresourcestruth Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. Carl Jung truthmistakemen Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung businesstruthknowledge We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. Carl Jung intelligentwisdomtruth In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. Carl Linnaeus principlestruthscience The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. Carl Reiner truthlaughingpeople Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? Carl Sagan truthinspirationallife There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. Carl Sagan aperturetruthself History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again. Carl Sagan ignorancetruthpeople The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth. Carl Sagan inquiryqueststruth 'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.' Carl Sagan truthopportunitybook Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome. Carl Sagan lighttruthsweet«1718192021222324252627»
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