Thomas Huxley Quotes About Truth
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There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
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