Laozi Quotes, Truth Quotes, Doubt Quotes

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

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I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.

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A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

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The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

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It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

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It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

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