“Falsehoods which we spurn to-day
Were the truths of long ago.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Calef in Boston, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
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“No one today likes truth: utility and self interest have long ago been substituted for truth.”
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Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Ch. 12
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
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