"Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative."

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Source : Edward Everett (1840). “Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses”, p.228

Edward Everett

#Truth Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.”
“I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.”
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
“It's going back to old school, the way it was done and I'm finding out there is something different, a little interesting. There is something just a little fresh about it because I haven't seen it done like that in a little while. I'm embracing it, you know.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.”

Source : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
“It's not like I studied abroad, I went to school and university in New Delhi. So many people in India think of me on the level of big artists, which is wonderful - and also an enormous responsibility.”
“I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I donâ€™t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise itâ€™s the end of our species.”
“To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,”

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