Truth Quotes

"Certainty is often the enemy of truth."

"When I say I am using the word in a normal way I am not then saying something which is false whatever I may say."

"Our word is our bond."

"What is said is not merely what is said, but how it is said."

"Words are deeds."

"Do not say that surely must be so, but look and see."

"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."

"A name is not a description."

"What counts is the sense of the whole."

"Facts do not determine meaning."

"Look at the practice and the meaning will become clear."

"What is meant is often different from what is said."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"Sentences are instruments for a purpose."

"The proposition shows that which it means."

"Words are not mere names."

"We know much less about cognition than we usually assume."

"The semantic content of thoughts depends partly on environmental factors."

"The theory-ladenness of observation extends even to introspection."

"Understanding the mind requires respecting its fundamental opacity."

"Consciousness exhibits properties that seem incompatible with physicalism."

"The ordinary concept of truth is more robust than philosophical skepticism suggests."

"Truth is a property we ascribe to statements within our practices of language use."

"Truth in moral matters is discoverable through careful attention to human nature and experience."

"Meaning in language comes from how our words connect to the external world, not just from internal thoughts."

"Language links us to reality through a network of causal relationships."

"Anomalies in behavior often reveal the gap between intention and action."

"The world constrains what can be true about our thoughts."

"Meaning without reference is merely sound and fury."