Source: Christian Missions, Their Place in India
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“A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
Source: Pragmatism
Source: Pragmatism: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth”
Source: Essays in Pragmatism
Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system”
Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth
“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract”
Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
“Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences”
Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth
“Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes”
Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
Source: The Meaning of Truth
“To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides”
Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings
“To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein”
Source: The William James Reader
“Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one”
Source: The Meaning of Truth
“An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true”
Source: The Meaning of Truth
“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
Source: Confessions (Second Edition)
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor
“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.”
Source: Christ in modern life: sermons
“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
“No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.”
Source: The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
“It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.”
“Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.”
“The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.”
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler