Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"To find truth, we must question everything."
Nolan, Daniel
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"The truth will set you free."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Truth cannot be hidden forever."
Nolan, Daniel
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"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual humility."
Goldman, Alvin
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"We are epistemic agents responsible for our beliefs."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The search for certainty is noble but the acceptance of doubt is wise."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The pursuit of truth requires us to question what we think we already know."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Truth is often stranger than fiction because fiction must be plausible."
Williamson, Timothy
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"The deepest truths are often hiding in plain sight."
Williamson, Timothy
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"The pursuit of clarity is the pursuit of truth."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Truth requires evidence, but evidence requires interpretation."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Truth resists simplification; beware of simple truths."
Williamson, Timothy
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"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual humility."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Truth is discovered through rigorous questioning and careful observation."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Truth requires both evidence and interpretation; neither alone suffices."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Reliabilism teaches us that a belief's truth depends on the reliable process that produced it."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Safety in belief-formation is what prevents us from holding truths by accident alone."
Sosa, Ernest
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"We must distinguish between what would convince us and what actually justifies our beliefs."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Safety conditions protect our knowledge from being merely lucky true beliefs."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Intellectual integrity requires that we follow the evidence wherever it leads, even unto costly places."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Safety and sensitivity conditions together capture what we need for robust, reliable knowledge."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Knowledge requires not just truth and justification, but a right relationship between belief and world."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The virtue of intellectual honesty sometimes requires us to say 'I do not know' rather than pretend certainty."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Knowledge involves more than belief that happens to be true; it requires the right causal history."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The proper object of intellectual virtue is truth, understood as fidelity to how things really are."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Knowledge is not a matter of degree but of kind; one either knows or one does not."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Safety conditions ensure that our knowledge is not merely lucky true belief."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Epistemological success requires both the right mental states and the right relationship to the world."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Knowledge achieves its value when it shapes our understanding and transforms our engagement with the world."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Intellectual integrity means believing in proportion to the evidence, neither more nor less."
Sosa, Ernest