quotes by topic Truth

" The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. "
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Aristotle
Truth
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" A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. "
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Baltasar Gracian
Age , Truth , Justice , Old , Reason
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" Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. "
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C. S. Lewis
Imagination , Truth , Order , Reason , Meaning
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" Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. "
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Edgar Allan Poe
Will , Experience , Truth , Philosophy
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" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "
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Edgar Allan Poe
Nature , Truth
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" Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. "
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H. G. Wells
Man , Truth
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" The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. "
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Hannah Arendt
Wishes , Truth , Trouble , Efficiency , Lying
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" The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. "
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Hannah Arendt
People , Truth , Evil
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" I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. "
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Harry S. Truman
Truth , Thought , Hell
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" I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. "
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Harry S. Truman
Truth , Thought , Hell
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