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• "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth" itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance (the Truth, the Body of Knowledge), or a quality (something like the colour red, inhering in truths), or a relation ("correspondence"). But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word "true." In vino, possibly, "veritas," but in a sober symposium "verum."

  J. L. Austin

  Truth, Eye, Past

  "Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society". "Truth" by J. L. Austin, "Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society", 1950.

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• Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

  Gina Barreca

  Needs, Nuclear, Way

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• Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

  Iain Banks

  Truth, Two, People

  Iain M. Banks (2007). “Inversions”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

  Francis William Newman

  Truth, Men, Doe

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• If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

  Henry Adams

  Truth, Mind, Would Be

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Morning

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• Truth is more than a dream and a song.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Song, Truth

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.147

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• Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Believe, Responsibility, Acceptance

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• Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Money, Thinking, Government

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• But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Believe, Fighting

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

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• Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Views, Majority, Tests

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• Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Beautiful, Should Have

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• He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Heaven, Soul

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• Truth is the edict of God.

  Josh Billings

  Truth

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• The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Knowing, Ego

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• It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Errors, Evil, Healthy

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• Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Broads, Duty, Hereafter

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• The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Truth, Inspiration, Gymnastics

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• Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Truth

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• The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those who pooh-pooh beta analysis and all that, who are least able to understand the analysis needed to test that hypothesis.

  Paul Samuelson

  Investing, Tests, Able

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• Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.

  Warren Buffett

  Average, Two, Needs

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• ... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be hot, you can't - and neither can the legions of advisers and publications that claim they can. That's why building a portfolio around index funds isn't really settling for average. It's just refusing to believe in magic.

  Bethany McLean

  Believe, Past, Average

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• Right now, in this moment, your soul has again created opportunity for you to be, do, and have what it takes to know Who You Really Are. Your soul has brought you to the words you are reading right now-as it has brought you to words of wisdom and truth before. What will you do now? What will you choose to be? Your soul waits, and watches with interest, as it has many times before.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Reading

  "The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 2005.

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• I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Reality

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.154, Penguin

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• People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ecosystems, People

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