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