Carl Sagan Quotes, Truth Quotes, Inquiry Quotes

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

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The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

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Truth needs not flowers of speech.

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No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

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Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

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The object of the superior man is truth.

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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.

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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

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Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

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