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Letter "T" » Truth
«A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it»
Author: Max Planck
(Physicist)
| About:
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
convincing, eventually, familiar, familiar with, opponents, scientific, see the light, triumph
«A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.»
«A half-truth is a whole lie»
«A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots»
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
| About:
Travel,
Truth
| Keywords:
boots, putting, round, The World is Round, travels
«A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Action,
Thinking,
Truth
| Keywords:
disinterested, enslave, extraordinarily, inconvenienced, liking, lively, persistent, troubled
«A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth»
«A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Falsehood,
Imagination,
Mankind,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions
«A lie stands on one leg, truth on two»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
leg
«A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Facts,
Lies,
Miracles,
Partnership,
Truth
| Keywords:
assistance, scorns, wonders
«A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.»
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