Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Logic cannot be other than it is."Frege, Gottlob
"We are all bound by the laws of thought."Frege, Gottlob
"A thought grasps a truth or grasps a falsehood."Frege, Gottlob
"Truth is neither created nor discovered; it simply is."Frege, Gottlob
"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."Whitehead, Alfred North
"The absolute is only achieved by the removal of contradictions."Whitehead, Alfred North
"The world is at variance with itself."Whitehead, Alfred North
"There is no absolute knowledge. All knowledge is, in the nature of things, only a working hypothesis."Poincaré, Henri
"Method is less important than sincerity and goodwill in the pursuit of truth."Poincaré, Henri
"The truest and deepest discoveries are often the simplest."Poincaré, Henri
"Convention is not enemy to truth; it is the framework in which truth lives."Poincaré, Henri
"The pursuit of mathematical elegance is the pursuit of truth itself."Weyl, Hermann
"Mathematical beauty is not decoration but the signature of truth."Weyl, Hermann
"Reality is not what we perceive, but what mathematics reveals."Weyl, Hermann
"Mathematical truth is eternal; it transcends culture and time."Weyl, Hermann
"Invariance under transformation is the mark of true physical law."Weyl, Hermann
"The structure of mathematics mirrors the structure of the universe."Weyl, Hermann
"Mathematical proof is the only absolute certainty available to humans."Weyl, Hermann
"Man can embody truth and he can embody error, but he cannot embody both."Wigner, Eugene
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"Wigner, Eugene
"Truth in mathematics is not discovered but constructed by the mind."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"A theorem is not true unless it can be understood and verified by the human intellect."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"In rejecting the law of excluded middle, we embrace a deeper truth."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"To be rigorous is to be honest with ourselves about what we know and do not know."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"Rigour in mathematics means being precise about the limits of our knowledge."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"To question the foundations is to honor the pursuit of truth."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"Mathematical truths are discovered, not invented."Hilbert, David
"Axioms are not truths, but the starting points from which all other truths must be derived."Hilbert, David
"To understand geometry is to understand the basic structure of reality itself."Hilbert, David
"Mathematics does not deceive; it is language itself that can mislead us."Hilbert, David