Carl Sagan Quotes, Truth Quotes, Book Quotes

'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.'

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

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Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

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Truth - is as old as God-.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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The object of the superior man is truth.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

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