Famous quotes containing the words truth and/or claims:
“He, who has a true idea, simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.”
—Baruch (Benedict)
“Though an unpleasant sort of person, and even a queer threatener withal, yet, if one meets him, one must get along with him as one can; for his ignorance is extreme. And what under heaven indeed should such a phantasm as Death know, for all that the Appearance tacitly claims to be somebody that knows much?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)