Truth Quotes

"Every meaningful proposition must be capable of confirmation or disconfirmation."

"The empirical world is the final arbiter of scientific disputes."

"We must test our theories against the tribunal of experience."

"Every genuine question admits of at least a theoretical answer."

"Meaningful discourse must be anchored in observable experience."

"Truth is what survives empirical testing and rational scrutiny."

"The verification principle eliminates pseudo-problems from intellectual discourse."

"Every statement's truth value must be determinable in principle."

"Truth requires correspondence between our statements and observable reality."

"Truth is the coherence of our statements with observable facts."

"Every meaningful question has at least a theoretical answer."

"Every true statement must be verifiable or analytically necessary."

"We should think of justice as the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought."

"I am not interested in being right, only in getting nearer to the truth."

"I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth."

"The claim to have found the absolute truth is the claim to be God."

"Truth is not democratic; it is not determined by majority vote."

"The search for truth is nobler than the possession of it."

"The path to truth is paved with error."

"Love of truth is the greatest love of all."

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

"The atomic facts of the world correspond to elementary propositions."

"Memory provides the primary evidence for the external world."

"Perception provides direct access to sensible facts."

"The verification principle is the gate-keeper of meaning."

"We must ruthlessly eliminate all unverifiable claims."

"Truth requires correspondence between propositions and facts."

"The external world is inferred rather than directly perceived."

"We achieve objectivity through intersubjective agreement and verification."

"The verification criterion demarcates sense from nonsense."