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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. (Aldiss Brian)
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. (Aldiss Brian)
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal. (Aldiss Brian)
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. (Aldiss Brian)
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. (Aldiss Brian)
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. (Aldiss Brian)
Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging. (Aldiss Brian)
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate. (Aldiss Brian)
The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. (Aldiss Brian)
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. (Aldiss Brian)
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose. (Aldiss Brian)
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. (Aldiss Brian)
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. (Aldiss Brian)
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous. (Aldiss Brian)
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. (Aldiss Brian)
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. (Aldiss Brian)
We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts. (Aldiss Brian)
Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth. (Aldiss Brian)
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries. (Aldiss Brian)
I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older. (Aldiss Brian)
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. (Aldiss Brian)
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