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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 emerges more readily from error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon

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To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. – Milan Kundera

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. – John Ruskin

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