Quote by Peter Abelard
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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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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