#truths

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.


Blaise Pascal


#each #embraces #faith #many #other

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.


Frederick Pollock


#believe #how #many #patterns #rational

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.


Alexander Pope


#blunt #counsel #enough #falsehoods #mischief

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.


Salvatore Quasimodo


#being #desire #duplication #earth #even

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'


Laura Riding


#am #conscious #go #human #human nature

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.


Paul Valery


#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.


Emile M. Cioran


#calling #conflict #end #police #them

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.


John Nelson Darby


#doctrine #fundamental #gives #gospel #more

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.


William Herschel


#confirming #contained #discoveries #high #human

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.


Thomas Huxley


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