Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"The nature of truth in science is the adequacy of our conceptual schemes to experience."Hanson, Norwood Russell
"Truth requires the insistence that contradiction is only apparent, but that it ultimately leads beyond itself."Bohm, David
"Reality is more fundamental than our concepts of reality."Bohm, David
"Truth emerges from authentic dialogue."Bohm, David
"The world is not divided into objective facts and subjective opinions."Feyerabend, Paul
"The pursuit of universal principles often blinds us to particular truths."Feyerabend, Paul
"Objectivity without subjectivity is impossible."Feyerabend, Paul
"Truth is pluralistic; there are many ways of being right."Feyerabend, Paul
"Coherence is a virtue of theories, not of reality."Feyerabend, Paul
"What we call 'objectivity' is often just collective prejudice."Feyerabend, Paul
"The criterion for truth cannot itself be known to be true without circularity."Feyerabend, Paul
"The desire for certainty is the enemy of truth."Feyerabend, Paul
"What we call 'facts' are really interpretations wearing the mask of objectivity."Feyerabend, Paul
"I have tried to show what being wrong looks like in science."Kuhn, Thomas
"Perception is not a passive reception of sense data but an active conceptualization."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Language is not a veil between us and reality; it is our engagement with reality."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Facts are not independent of conceptual frameworks; they are constructed within them."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Truth is not correspondence to a ready-made reality but coherence within a rational framework."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Objectivity is not independence from conceptual schemes but coherence within them."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Facts are not atomic but embedded in networks of significance."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Objectivity requires not the elimination of perspective but the coordination of perspectives."Sellars, Wilfrid
"I have nothing to hide from you, God knows I am no pillar of virtue, but I do try"Bell, John Stewart
"There must be something wrong with the axioms"Bell, John Stewart
"One must maintain a healthy respect for skepticism"Bell, John Stewart
"I am convinced that the hidden variables are not there"Bell, John Stewart
"The pursuit of truth demands intellectual honesty"Bell, John Stewart
"The scientist is a seeker of truth, not a purveyor of dogma"Bell, John Stewart
"Science demands integrity above all else"Bell, John Stewart
"Truth is more precious than any comfort"Bell, John Stewart
"We live in a multiverse, whether we acknowledge it or not."Everett, Hugh