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"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

Mary Astell on Truth

More quotes about Truth

  • "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

    Marcus Aurelius on Truth

  • "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

    Albert Einstein on Truth

  • "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

    Buddha on Truth

  • "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth

  • "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

    Winston Churchill on Truth

More quotes by Mary Astell

  • "Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."

  • "The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

  • "But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

  • "God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

  • "Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up."

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