Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"To deny observation is to deny reality itself."Tycho Brahe
"Truth is not democratic; it does not yield to consensus or authority."Tycho Brahe
"The stars do not move because we believe they move; they move according to law."Tycho Brahe
"Those who wish to know me must read my works carefully."Archimedes
"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, not in multiplicity and confusion of things."Archimedes
"In any moment of difficulty, we must pause and ask ourselves what is true."Archimedes
"Trust in numbers; they never lie."Archimedes
"The straight line is the shortest distance between two points."Euclid
"Magnitudes which coincide with one another are equal to one another."Euclid
"Axioms are the truths upon which all reason stands."Euclid
"To build upon a false foundation is to build a false world."Euclid
"Contradiction cannot exist in a properly constructed logical system."Euclid
"To doubt geometry is to doubt reality itself."Euclid
"In mathematics, there is a clarity that life can never achieve."Euclid
"What can be proven can be trusted; what cannot be proven must be questioned."Euclid
"The perpendicular line seeks ultimate truth."Euclid
"Rotation reveals the circular nature of truth."Euclid
"The diameter is the longest chord, the greatest truth."Euclid
"Congruent triangles demonstrate that identity can be exact."Euclid
"Certainty is an illusion; probability is the truth of the universe."Pierre-Simon Laplace
"Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife."Johannes Kepler
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."Johannes Kepler
"I stand by my position that the greatest good in life is the knowledge of truth."Johannes Kepler
"The heliocentric model is not merely a mathematical convenience but a physical reality."Johannes Kepler
"All paths lead to truth, though some are longer than others."Leonhard Euler
"Truth is stranger and more wonderful than any fiction."Leonhard Euler
"We perceive only the surface of things; truth lies beneath."Pierre-Simon Laplace
"Prejudice is the enemy of truth; doubt is the friend of wisdom."Pierre-Simon Laplace
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, not extraordinary belief."Pierre-Simon Laplace
"The highest calling of any mathematician is to serve truth."Carl Friedrich Gauss