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• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Eternal, Pretension, Absolutes

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Truth, Cells, Hunters

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, World, Absolutes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.52, Rajpal & Sons

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• The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

  Pat Summitt

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Truth

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.48, Crown Business

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• You merely dream that you roam about. In a few years your stay in India will appear as a dream to you. You will dream some other dream at that time. Do realize that it is not you who moves from dream to dream, but the dreams flow before you and you are the immutable witness. No happening affects your real being-that is the absolute truth.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Real, Moving

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• A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Love, Inspirational, Christian

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• It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

  Stanley Fish

  Thinking, Matter, Helping

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• Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

  Charles Stanley

  Pain, Disappointment, Father

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• It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Lying, Mean

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• It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Spiritual, Truth, Lying

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Theatre, Truth Is, Proportion

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

  Carl Reiner

  Truth, People, Laughing

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• The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Truth, Writing

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• Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Truth Is, Thee, Absolutes

  'Wolfenbüttler Fragmente'

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• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

  Charles Lamb

  Truth, Latitude And Longitude, Tales

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.181

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• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Imagination, Literature

  The Hindu, February 26, 1995.

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

  Hu Shih

  Truth, Principles, Needs

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• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Theory, Regard, Absolutes

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and give you the most truthful and complete answer you can imagine. You will know the absolute truth of the statement as well as the thought process behind the answer. You will have no doubt as to the intellect of the speaker and meaning of the answer to this question....So you can see, as a politician, he has a lot to learn.

  Mario Cuomo

  Eye, Men, Giving

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• All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Party

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• The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.

  Peter Kreeft

  Squinting, Cynical, Vision

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• One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Doe, Dangerous

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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