Truth Quotes

"The most profound truths often hide in plain sight."

"Truth has no agenda; it simply is."

"Truth is not discovered; it is revealed through observation and thought."

"A proposition has sense only if we know what would be the case if it were true."

"Everything is what it is, and not another thing."

"If I imagine someone and I believe he is in the room, but he is not in the room, then I am mistaken."

"The picture theory of meaning says that a proposition is true when it corresponds to a fact."

"The facts all contribute to only one end; and to the end they all pull the same way."

"Whereof one cannot speak—one must be silent. This is the highest truth."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"The picture theory: a proposition is a picture of a possible fact."

"If we know that the truth is one thing and the facts are another, we must learn to live with this knowledge."

"The most profound truths are often the simplest ones."

"What we can know is limited by our empirical access to the world."

"The question of what science tells us about reality requires careful analysis."

"We should distinguish between a theory's truth and its empirical adequacy."

"We should distinguish between what science explains and what it assumes."

"We must separate what science establishes from what we project onto science."

"The relationship between mind and world is fundamentally one of meaningful connection, not arbitrary correlation."

"We should not confuse the map with the territory, nor the symbol with what it symbolizes."

"The mark of a true belief is that it bears a proper causal relationship to its subject matter."

"A thought about X must have some appropriate connection to X, or it is not truly about X."

"To deny intentionality is to deny the very possibility of truth and falsity."

"Intention connects us to reality in ways that mechanical processes alone cannot explain."

"Truth is not relative to individual minds, though understanding of truth must be developed individually."

"Truth constrains what can be meaningfully thought, even as it transcends individual thinkers."

"Content-bearing states point beyond themselves to what they represent."

"Understanding connects thought and reality through relationships of meaning and significance."

"Truth is independent of our beliefs, yet we can only access truth through our thoughts."

"Meaning emerges through the interaction of minds with minds and minds with the world."