Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Truth
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
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The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
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