Truth Quotes

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

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"Properties are not mere appearances but constituents of reality."
Fine, Kit
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"Vagueness has limits; some determinations are absolute."
Fine, Kit
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"Reality exhibits both necessity and contingency in their proper measures."
Fine, Kit
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"Possibility grounds reality in ways that merit the most careful analysis."
Fine, Kit
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"To deny properties is to make the world fundamentally unintelligible."
Fine, Kit
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"Being itself is what all true statements correspond to."
Fine, Kit
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"Reality contains both what must be and what might have been."
Fine, Kit
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"Reality is not created by our concepts but discovered through them."
Fine, Kit
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"Truth is rarely comfortable, which is why we avoid it so often."
Lewis, David
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"Meaning arises from the intentions we bring to our utterances."
Grice, Paul
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"Do not say more than you know, and do not say more than is necessary."
Grice, Paul
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"Ambiguity arises not from words, but from our failure to clarify intention."
Grice, Paul
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"Truth is achieved through the honest cooperation of minds."
Grice, Paul
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"The explicit meaning of a sentence is rarely its complete meaning."
Grice, Paul
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"To misunderstand is often to violate one of the maxims of conversation."
Grice, Paul
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"The principle of charity is the foundation of all rational discourse."
Grice, Paul
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"Concepts shape what we perceive and how we understand reality."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"Conceptual confusion often underlies apparent factual disagreements."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"Truth emerges from careful observation and rigorous thinking."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"The world appears differently depending on our conceptual scheme."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"Truth is discovered through rigorous examination of our beliefs."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"Truth emerges from the confrontation between ideas and experience."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"Truth requires both factual accuracy and conceptual clarity."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual humility and rigor."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"Truth is a goal we pursue through inquiry and dialogue."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"Truth emerges from the convergence of reason and evidence."
Hanson, Norwood Russell
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"To be is to be in the space of reasons, to be subject to justification and rationality."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"Categories are not created by the mind but discovered in the structure of reality."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"We cannot step outside language to check if our concepts match reality."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"All knowledge involves a perspective; absolute objectivity is impossible and incoherent."
Sellars, Wilfrid