Quote by Tom Stoppard
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. – Tom Stoppard

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard

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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. – Lewis Carroll

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. – John Locke

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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. – Harold Evans

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