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“There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.”

Source: Thoughts on art and life

“There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

Ifs Truth Doubt Meditation Possibility Students Method Fruit Simplicity Where You Are Can Not Doubt Me

Author:Dogen

“The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.”

World Mean Truth Faces Pleasure Doubt Truth Is Profit Driven Contradiction Yield Profitable

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?”

Believe Whole Truth Faith Doubt Proof

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.”

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Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.”

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Book:The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity

Source: The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity

“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”

Way Truth Doubt Curiosity Inquiry Incentives Doubted

Author:Hosea Ballou

“When in doubt tell the truth.”

“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”

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Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

Source: Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence

“It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation.”

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Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”

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Author:Doris Lessing

“Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.”

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Author:Francis of Assisi

“We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.”

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Book:Mark Twain's Speeches: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Mark Twain's Speeches: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.”

Believe Has Beens Truth Lying My Own Doubt Luck Curious

Book:MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author’s Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…

Source: MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author’s Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…

“No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.”

Hard Dream Truth Sound Doubt Truth Is Illusion Pleasant No Doubt

Author:Anatoli Granovsky

“Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.”

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Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“By doubting we come at truth.”

Life Truth Doubt Truth Of Life

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.”

Truth Science Doubt Truth Is Discovery Justified Exertion

Author:Niels Bohr

“[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error.”

Should Truth Able Science Doubt Mathematics Foundation Errors Certainty Exclusion

Author:Roger Bacon