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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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. – Franz Kafka

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. – Helen Hayes

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If you dont accept failure as a possibility, you dont set high goals, you dont branch out, you dont try – you dont take the risk. – Rosalynn Carter

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Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. – Martha Gellhorn

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