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“The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.”

Truth Passion Answers Truth Is Authority Weight Undisputed

Book:The New Being

Source: The New Being

“The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.”

Way Humans Truth Culture Goal Answers Asking Maps Destination Asking Questions Measuring

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.”

Giving Soul Moments Facts Light Truth Form Lying Answers Sun Color Flower Heat Ripe Germs

Book:Essays in Literary Interpretation

Source: Essays in Literary Interpretation

“The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!”

Truth Answers Truth Is

Author:Adyashanti

“"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."”

“If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.”

Ifs Seems Truth Simple Answers Statements Being True Primaries

Author:J. L. Mackie

“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”

Said Truth Answers Honesty Saying The Truth

Author:Francis Bacon