Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Truth is discovered, not invented."Tarski, Alfred
"Words can obscure truth as easily as reveal it."Tarski, Alfred
"Truth is independent of who states it."Tarski, Alfred
"Truth is the correspondence between statement and reality."Tarski, Alfred
"Truth exists independent of our beliefs about it."Tarski, Alfred
"Truth is eternal and unchanging."Tarski, Alfred
"Truth cannot be negotiated or compromised."Tarski, Alfred
"Truth is the goal of all inquiry."Tarski, Alfred
"Truth is the foundation upon which all else rests."Tarski, Alfred
"Truth is not invented, but discovered through rigorous examination."Frege, Gottlob
"The truth of a proposition depends not on our beliefs but on reality."Frege, Gottlob
"A proposition asserts what is the case, not what we wish to be the case."Frege, Gottlob
"Reality constrains our thoughts; our thoughts do not create reality."Frege, Gottlob
"A proposition's truth is independent of who believes it."Frege, Gottlob
"Reality is determined, not contingent on our representations of it."Frege, Gottlob
"We ascertain truth not through feeling but through proof."Frege, Gottlob
"In the dance of symbols, we find the truth of things."Church, Alonzo
"True knowledge illuminates rather than constrains."Church, Alonzo
"The most beautiful truths are often the most painful."Church, Alonzo
"In the space between questions and answers, truth dwells."Church, Alonzo
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."Poincaré, Henri
"In science, there are no shortcuts to truth."Poincaré, Henri
"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to admit what we do not know."Poincaré, Henri
"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
"Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions."Whitehead, Alfred North
"Great truths are portions of the soul of the world."Whitehead, Alfred North
"There is no greater thing than truth, save the telling of it."Whitehead, Alfred North
"The deepest truth is often hidden in the simplest observation."Whitehead, Alfred North
"Truth is not something that exists independently of human thought."Dummett, Michael
"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual humility."Dummett, Michael