Truth Quotes

"The excluded middle excludes more than we realize."

"Inconsistency, properly understood, is sometimes inevitable."

"To refuse classical logic is not to refuse reasoning itself."

"The debate over logic's laws is really a debate about reality's structure."

"The semantics of truth are as important as its logic."

"The principle of bivalence assumes a determinacy that nature may not possess."

"What we can formally derive and what is true are not always identical."

"The excluded middle is excluded for good reasons in some contexts."

"What seems contradictory may be true relative to different perspectives."

"The laws of thought are not laws of nature, but laws of language."

"The debate over logical laws mirrors the debate over reality's nature."

"What classical logic forbids, reality sometimes requires."

"Truth and validity are distinct notions, and philosophy must respect the distinction."

"The excluded middle excludes the possibility that some things are genuinely indeterminate."

"The nature of truth is as much a logical question as a metaphysical one."

"Truth often hides not in words, but in silence."

"Truth requires no defense; lies require constant maintenance."

"Truth requires us to question the very foundations of what we believe."

"The unexamined belief is the most dangerous one."

"Truth lives in the spaces between assumptions."

"Doubt and reason are the twin guardians of truth."

"The comfortable argument is the false one."

"The argument we most resist is often the truest."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right."

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Truth wears many faces, and they are not always consistent."

"The map is never the territory, yet we mistake one for the other."

"The boundaries we draw are convenient fictions."

"The greatest illusions are those we do not recognize as illusions."