Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Truth is a big concept.
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
A belief may be larger than a fact.
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