"Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth."
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"When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose."
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"Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood."
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"It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf."
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"We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism."
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"...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known."
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"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth."
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"There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs."
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"What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?"
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"... the unarmed power of naked truth."
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"Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn."
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"Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent."
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"... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires."
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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
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"I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias."
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"Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth."
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"Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science."
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"Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind."
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"There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer."
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"If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth."
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