Jack McDevitt - Truth Quotes

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The notion that we need a higher power, that's more a human failing than a reflection of reality. The universe pays no attention to what we need. Truth is what it is, and the inconveniences it might cause us don't change anything.

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The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth.

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So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.

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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.

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Few of the virtues are really useful. Fidelity leads to lost opportunity, truth-telling to injured feelings, charity to additional solicitations. The least productive, and possibly the most overrated, is faith. The faithful deny reason, close their minds to the evidence of their senses, and remain unfailingly optimistic in the face of disaster. They inevitably get just what they deserve.

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We are not a debating club, Franklin said. Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.

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Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

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Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

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Freedom and idiots make a volatile mix. And the sad truth is that the idiocy quotient in the general population is alarmingly high.

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Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

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The truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

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