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“Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.”

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Book:Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses

Source: Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses

“I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”

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Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.”

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Author:Mary McCarthy

“The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.”

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Author:Byron Katie

“Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.”

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Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.”

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Author:Kenny Smith

“Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.”

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Author:Joseph Curiale

“Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.”

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Author:Scott Adams