Truth Quotes

"Possible worlds are as real as the distinctions we must make."

"Names point, but they also presuppose a history of use."

"The semantics of propositional attitudes reveal layers of meaning."

"A name connects us across time to the thing named."

"Necessity and possibility are woven into the fabric of reality."

"Indexicals anchor language to the world at specific moments."

"Names are not mere abbreviations for descriptions."

"We should be looking for how we are wrong, not how we are right."

"Our task is not to possess the truth but to search for it relentlessly."

"Love of truth requires the courage to abandon cherished illusions."

"Our worst errors come not from ignorance but from false certainty."

"The meaning of a statement is its method of verification."

"Truth claims must be testable, or they are meaningless."

"To claim knowledge without evidence is to commit an intellectual sin."

"The search for certainty is often the enemy of truth."

"Facts are not self-explanatory; they require interpretation."

"The pursuit of truth is a moral obligation."

"We must learn to distinguish appearance from reality."

"We cannot talk about the world without using language, and we cannot step outside language to verify our claims."

"What cannot be stated clearly cannot be thought clearly either."

"The pragmatist tests ideas by their consequences, not by their correspondence to reality."

"True statements are those that cohere with our best overall theory."

"Necessity is a function of our language, not of the world."

"What we call 'truth' is better understood as coherence within a system."

"We cannot step outside our conceptual scheme to test it against reality."

"Essence is a matter of convention, not discovery."

"The analytic-synthetic distinction blurs upon close examination."

"Real is as real does—what plays the right causal role is real."

"The facts of the matter depend on which framework we employ."

"A meaningful statement must be either analytically true or empirically verifiable."