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“People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.”

People Thinking Greatness Judging Ought Fit Truth Is Capable Motive Sublime

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.”

God Fit Truth Is Sacred Superficial Transient Earnestness Worldliness

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.”

“[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.”

Way Truth Fit Truth Is Demand Tests Parts Of Life Pragmatism Collectivity

Book:Pragmatism

Source: Pragmatism

“To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.”

Believe Wells Sound Fit Truth Is Expectations Determined Familiar Encounters Consistently Contests

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?”

Ifs Ends Eye Truth Film Understanding Darkness Objects Ignorance Fit Truth Is Essence Visible Over It Brightness Gazing Plainness

Book:The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.”

Way Kind Different Ends Stories Fit Truth Is Make Sense Messy Chaotic

Author:Paul Murray

“The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.”

Humans Imagination Simple Fit Truth Is Distance Simple Truths Human Imagination Interstellar

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.”

Remember Fit Truth Is Biographies Publication

Author:George Bernard Shaw