Quotation by

Leo Tolstoy

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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Tolstoy means that truth is discovered by removing all falsehoods and distractions, rather than by simply adding more information. Just as gold is found by cleaning away dirt, truth emerges when we strip away what is untrue.

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