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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. – Tom Stoppard

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. – Francis Bacon

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. – Marie de France

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