„Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming both.“

„Whenever there is an absolute truth at stake, the manners become careless. This applies both to the owners as well as their opponents of that truth and to all people involved.“

—  Paul Schnabel

Источник: Between stigma and charisma: new religious movements and public mental health (Tussen stigma en charisma: nieuwe religieuze bewegingen en volksgezondheid) Deventer, Van Loghum Slaterus, page 343.

„The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.“

—  William O. Douglas Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1898 - 1980

Mike Wallace interview (4 November 1958), quoted in The Great Quotations (1966) by George Seldes
Other speeches and writings

„Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.“

—  Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy

Stanislaus Grumman to Lee Scoresby in Ch. 14 : Alamo Gulch
His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997)

„Who claims Truth, Truth abandons.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

Источник: Mason & Dixon (1997), Ch. 35
Контексте: Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power, — who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.

„We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.“

—  Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826

Letter https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-1712 to William Roscoe (27 December 1820)
1820s

„It was both true, and not the complete truth, like so much of his talk.“

—  Paul J. McAuley British writer 1955

Источник: Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), Chapter 3 “The Keep” (p. 197)

„If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.“

—  Horace Mann American politician 1796 - 1859

Journal entry (29 October 1838)

„It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.“

—  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax English politician 1633 - 1695

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

„The opposite of every great truth is also a great truth“

—  Niels Bohr Danish physicist 1885 - 1962

„A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.“

—  Thomas Mann German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875 - 1955

Essay on Freud (16 May 1929)

„You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.“

—  Parmenides ancient Greek philosopher -501 - -470 до н.э.

Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians, vii. 3; Simplicius, Commentary on the Heavens, 557-8; Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus I, 345

„In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.“

—  Sherwood Anderson, книга Winesburg, Ohio

"The Book of the Grotesque"
Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

„Meaning is a much more fundamental notion than truth, indeed more fundamental even than the notion of "reality" itself. The basic argument [of the essay] was that claims about truth or reality are meanings made by people according to patterns that they have learned, and that trying to understand how and why people make the meanings they do is more useful than fighting over the truth of their claims.“

—  Jay Lemke American academic 1946

Источник: Textual politics: Discourse and social dynamics, 1995, p. 156

„seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here“

—  E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

3
73 poems (1963)

„We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.“

—  Desmond Tutu South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner 1931

„All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Pearls of Wisdom

„Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.“

—  Jacques Maritain French philosopher 1882 - 1973

Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 9.

„An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.“

—  John Steinbeck, книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden

„It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.“

—  Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 до н.э.

As quoted in The Importance of Living (1937) by Lin Yutang, p. v
Attributed