"Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience"
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"... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp."
"True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as."
"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said."
"The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked."
"The truth is the light and the light is the truth."
"All necessary truth is its own evidence."
"The life of truth is cold."
"Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore."
"No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it."
"We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that."
"Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness."
"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."
"Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error."
"Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself."
"The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!"
"The language of truth is unvarnished enough."
"In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth."
"As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!"
"Truth is, it's a relief to finally put my life in the hands of someone I trust."