Truth Quotes

"A statement can be neither provably true nor provably false."

"Conventional truth is all the truth we can ever achieve."

"The principle of non-contradiction may require revision."

"The correspondence theory of truth cannot be sustained."

"The boundary between analytic and synthetic truths is blurred."

"Truth depends on social recognition, not objective facts."

"Conventions make truth possible in a real sense."

"Truth-value gaps are genuine phenomena of language."

"Essence is determined by convention, not nature."

"Nominalist accounts of meaning face serious challenges."

"Truth in mathematics is proof, not correspondence."

"Abstract entities are creatures of human invention."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"Great truths are often simple things recognized when stated."

"Seek the concrete facts of experience in each individual case."

"What is decisive for the truth of a statement is the structure of the world, and logic only shows us tautologies before the world."

"Even if we could formalize all of mathematics, we would not thereby capture mathematical truth."

"A proposition is either true or false, irrespective of whether we can prove it."

"I believe that mathematical truths exist independently of our ability to prove them."

"What I have proven is that no finite set of axioms can capture all mathematical truths."

"Mathematical truth is discovered, not invented."

"Incompleteness teaches us that certainty is itself an illusion."

"To prove something impossible is to reveal something true."

"Appearance and reality are fundamentally different in our experience."

"The gap between subjective and objective is unbridgeable."

"We cannot escape our subjective viewpoint entirely."

"Objective truth exists but may be inaccessible to us."

"The other person's reality is as vivid as our own."

"Truth is not always accessible even in principle."

"Words often fail to capture lived experience."