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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, whi...more

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If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in math...more

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But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, t...more

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-l...more

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, whi...more

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If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in math...more

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But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, t...more