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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for

The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. – Peter Abelard

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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. – Peter Abelard

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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. – Peter Abelard

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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. – Alphonse de Lamartine, “Marseillaise of Peace,” 1841

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Winston Churchill

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Truth is in things, and not in words. – Herman Melville

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I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. – William Butler Yeats

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