Journal insanecarbonbasedlif's Journal: 10 quotes about truth 15
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.
1. Bible, 2. Albert Einstein, 3. Dorothy Thompson, 4. Anaïs Nin, 5. David Hume, 6. John F. Kennedy, 7. Pierre Abelard, 8. Stephen Hawking, 9. Tryon Edwards, 10. Robert G. Ingersoll
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.
1. Bible, 2. Albert Einstein, 3. Dorothy Thompson, 4. Anaïs Nin, 5. David Hume, 6. John F. Kennedy, 7. Pierre Abelard, 8. Stephen Hawking, 9. Tryon Edwards, 10. Robert G. Ingersoll
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Not to be confrontational, but the book of John is the most historically controversial of the four christian gospels. So, while I can with surety assert that it is in the Bible, and with reasonable certainty assert that it was originally written about 1900 years ago, I think ascribing it to a specific personage, Jesus of Nazareth, is, while traditional, in the end not that noteworthy or defensible.
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Well, sure, if you live in a world view where proper citation of quotes has only one possible outcome, I suppose you've got a point. If, on the other hand, there are a myriad of other possibilities that can be approached with seriousness, I think you might have to consider a spectr
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When all things are morally equivalent, noise is the new signal.
Closer to useful, say I, is an approach where we realize that there is a standard normal distribution of utility across that spectrum of ideas,
and allow sophomoric crap to be sophomoric crap, and gently ignore it.
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I believe the following quotes apply here:
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic
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Stephen Hawking (Score:2)
The meaning of the word "ignorance" appears to have been lost, to be synonymous with "absence of knowledge". Yet, looking at the word, it is easy to see its root: to ignore. As such, those who use the term politically or pejoratively would surely be closer to the meaning of the word than those who use it to refer to a lack of knowledge.
For my next trick, I will stand before the tide so that it does not come in.
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To be fair, the common usage of "ignorance" as an "absence of knowledge" is more in line with the original latin than the verb form "to ignore". The "i" meaning "not", and "gnosis" meaning knowledge or awareness of.
To be sure, a lot of ignorance these days is willful or selective ignorance. People (me included) have a hard time recognizing things that don't line up with what they expect or understand, and will often actively deny that which contradicts their assumptions.
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To be fair, the common usage of "ignorance" as an "absence of knowledge" is more in line with the original latin than the verb form "to ignore". The "i" meaning "not", and "gnosis" meaning knowledge or awareness of.
Bah. Okay, you win :D
To be sure, a lot of ignorance these days is willful or selective ignorance. People (me included) have a hard time recognizing things that don't line up with what they expect or understand, and will often actively deny that which contradicts their assumptions.
I think that we all do that :-(
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I always tell people:
There is no shame in being ignorant. The shame comes in choosing to remain ignorant.
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Too true.
Relativism of truth (Score:1)
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Pithiness obfuscates truth.
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Probably there is a truth, but how can we see it? We can only find it in a relative value. Passengers in a train are moving from where we see outside the train, but they are not in the train. Light is recognised as atom and wave at the same time from different viewpoint.
I was supposed to title 'It's true' instead of relativism of truth. Truth must be one, but almost impossible to find it.
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Truth is something we can work towards slowly over time. Given enough critical analysis, the chaff can be separated from the wheat, and the overall concentration of truth can go up.
To determine that something is absolutely, unequivocally true is impossible, but the practical everyday truth of things can be determined.
There is a great deal more truth in our understanding of light today than there was 400 years ago, regardless of what perspective we view it from.