The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.
For the carpenter’s and the geometer’s inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his work, but the geometer inquires into what, or what sort of things, the right angle is, since he studies the truth. We must do the same, then in other areas too, [seeking the proper degree of exactness], so that digressions do not overwhelm our main task.
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Whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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For underlying all philosophies and all religions are the facts of the human soul, which may ultimately be the arbiters of truth and error.
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Even a scientist is a human being. So it is natural for him, like others, to hate the things he cannot explain. It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.