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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.



Lizette W. Reese:

 

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The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and blows them out.

 

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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

 

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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

 

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

 

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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

 

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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

 

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A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

 

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If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

 

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

 

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old saw says, "Let a sleeping dog lie." Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

 

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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

 

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Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.

 

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Truth is mighty and will prevail

 

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

 

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.



Max Planck:

 

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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

 

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

 

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There are many more wrong answers than right ones, and they are easier to find.

 

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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.