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“Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.”

Source: A Universe From Nothing

“Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.”

Common Our Lives Truth Is Common Sense Reasonable

Book:Teach Yourself Zen

Source: Teach Yourself Zen

“But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.”

Should Writing Enough Asks Common Truth Is Supposed To Be Soil Telling The Truth Guru Psychiatrist

Author:Erica Jong

“Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.”

Way Political Lying Common Silence Practice Truth Is Dirty Maintaining Another Way High Places

Book:Dirty Truths

Source: Dirty Truths

“If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.”

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”

Firsts Courses Levels Common Quality Clear Truth Is Logic Practicals Common Sense Logical Severe Metaphysical Epithet

Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.”

Mean Political Lying Common Habit Truth Is Normal Intellectual Sickness Telling The Truth Disgusting Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Ali Sina

“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.”

Art Form Artist Common Truth Is Protect Threat Admire

Author:Arthur Phillips

“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

Ifs Enough Character Stories Joy Interest Hours Common Depends Truth Is Exciting Heavy Neighbor Scandal Amusement Ennui Common Interests Embellishment

Book:Literary and historical miscellanies

Source: Literary and historical miscellanies

“If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.”

Ifs Men Found Levels Common Depends Truth Is Historian Mediocrity Heroism Be A Man Unbelievers

Author:Matthew Arnold

“I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.”

People Knows Persons Stills I Can Guy Stuff Walks Rooms Common Company Groups Truth Is Meetings Bunch Drunk Dust Therapy Construction Ceo Abyss Walks Of Life Ugh Drunk People

Author:Lynda Carter

“The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.”

Ability Common Truth Is Miracle

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.”

Knows World Want Values Simple Common Talking Citizens Truth Is Diversity Messages Essence Fellows Who You Are Simple Truths

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“It isn't easy for everyone in Germany to make ends meet through well-paid work in Germany. You have to have sufficient skills and work hard. And I also know that we have much too much poverty and inequality here. Still, our parents and grandparents built an incredibly prosperous and peaceful country. One shouldn't, of course, play down the degree to which this is dependent on our economic strength. The truth is that Moscow, Beijing and Washington have one thing in common: They don't value the European Union at all. They disregard it.”

Country Values Easy Parent Common Poverty Economic Hard Work Truth Is Peaceful Inequality Grandparent Prosperous European Union

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.”

Knows Common Truth Is Common Sense Uncommon

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.”

Knows Ideas Waiting Common Truth Is Pages Showers Elevators Wikipedia Sad Truth

Book:Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies

Source: Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies

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