Truth Quotes

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

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"To have a proof that something cannot be proven is itself a proof."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Every mathematical truth is a necessary truth."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Mathematical truth is independent of human opinion."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The completeness of mathematics cannot be proven within mathematics itself."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Every true thought has its own necessity."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The proof of incompleteness shook the foundations of mathematical thought."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Every statement about infinity contains a hidden contradiction."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The axioms of mathematics are not provable within mathematics."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Every logical system has its limits."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The incompleteness theorem proves that mathematics is inexhaustible."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Every mathematical question has an answer, even if we cannot find it."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Every axiom system requires unprovable truths."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Truth is independent of convention."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Every formal system contains hidden assumptions."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The word 'true' like the word 'beautiful' is sometimes used to stand for an activity rather than a property."
Tarski, Alfred
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"The concept of truth transcends any particular language or formulation of it."
Tarski, Alfred
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"We must distinguish between what is true and what we can prove."
Tarski, Alfred
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"Truth is independent of belief, yet knowledge requires justification."
Tarski, Alfred
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"A sentence is true if and only if things are as the sentence says they are."
Tarski, Alfred
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"Truth is not a matter of opinion, though our access to it may be limited."
Tarski, Alfred
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"Consistency is not sufficient for truth, but it is necessary."
Tarski, Alfred
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"True statements correspond to objective facts in the world."
Tarski, Alfred
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"Reality constrains what can be true, though we may never fully grasp all truths."
Tarski, Alfred
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"Logical laws are not merely convenient conventions but represent deep necessities."
Tarski, Alfred
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"Truth is objective, though our access to it may be subjective."
Tarski, Alfred
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"The stability of logical truths grounds all scientific knowledge."
Tarski, Alfred
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"To deny truth is to undermine the very basis of rational discourse."
Tarski, Alfred
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"The absoluteness of logical laws shows us something about the nature of necessity itself."
Tarski, Alfred
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"The transition from thought to language is never transparent; ambiguity lurks in every expression."
Frege, Gottlob
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"A contradiction reveals that something has gone wrong with our concepts."
Frege, Gottlob