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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

— Barry Unsworth

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

— Frances Wright

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

— Novalis

Doubt is the father of invention.

— Ambrose Bierce

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

— Joseph Conrad

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

— Paul Watzlawick

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

— Blaise Pascal

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

— David Baldacci

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

— Georges Braque

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