John Milton Quotes, Truth Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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Duality is always secretly unity.

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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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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

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Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

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

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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