Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Truth is absolute, unchangeable, and necessary above all other things.
- In plain terms
- Truth is fixed, necessary, and unyielding.
- What can you take from it?
- Respect truth as unchangeable and essential.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you verify truth?
- Why is truth necessary?
Another view
Truth can be obscured by bias even if it remains objective.
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