Truth Quotes

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

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"Language both reveals and conceals truth."
Priest, Graham
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"The mind's capacity for self-deception is boundless."
Priest, Graham
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"We often mistake the clarity of our convictions for the truth of our beliefs."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Truth wears many faces; we mistake one for the whole."
Rosen, Gideon
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"The strongest conviction is often built on the shakiest foundation."
Rosen, Gideon
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"The pursuit of truth requires the humility to be wrong."
Rosen, Gideon
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"We must distinguish between what appears to be true and what actually is true."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects are not illusions, but genuine constituents of reality."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Reality is not democratic; truth does not depend on majority vote."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects and their properties form the bedrock of all meaningful discourse."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The world contains genuine facts that are independent of our beliefs about them."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The unity of wholes is as real as the multiplicity of parts."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects are not reducible to their observer's perceptions of them."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Being is not a concept we can dismiss or redefine at will."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"We honor truth by acknowledging the objective structure of the world."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Reality contains genuine distinctions that no amount of reasoning can erase."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The unity of reality transcends the diversity of our theoretical frameworks."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects exist and persist independent of our conceptual or perceptual access to them."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The truth about what exists is often surprising and counter-intuitive."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Reality surpasses our expectations and rewards our willingness to question."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"To be is to have properties and to participate in causal relations."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Truth-seeking requires us to sit with contradiction rather than flee from it."
Beall, Jc
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"The law of non-contradiction is useful, but usefulness is not the same as ultimate truth."
Beall, Jc
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"The quest for consistency sometimes leads us away from truth rather than toward it."
Beall, Jc
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"Many truths in the world resist being captured in neat logical boxes."
Beall, Jc
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"To accept a paradox is sometimes to accept a deeper truth than classical consistency allows."
Beall, Jc
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"The law of non-contradiction may be pragmatically indispensable without being metaphysically ultimate."
Beall, Jc
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"Truth is too complex for any single logical framework to capture completely."
Beall, Jc
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"The truth of a statement is not always a matter of logic, but of what we mean by truth."
Beall, Jc
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"Truth-seeking is not a destination but a direction we continually move toward."
Beall, Jc