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The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.

— Nikolai Gogol

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are many levels of truth.

— Alan Dershowitz

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

— Tom Hooper

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

— Nicolas Malebranche

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.

— Geoff Dyer

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

— Galileo Galilei

A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

— Rudolf Steiner

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

— Lucian Freud

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.

— Susan Barker

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

— Jimmy Johnson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

— Isaac Newton