Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Truth is like the sun; it cannot be hidden, only obscured by the clouds of falsehood."Mill, John Stuart
"Truth requires us to hold our beliefs lightly enough to revise them when confronted with evidence."Mill, John Stuart
"The test of sincerity is the power to endure consequences."Bentham, Jeremy
"Truth is the first casualty in the war between power and principle."Bentham, Jeremy
"The pursuit of truth requires the freedom to err."Bentham, Jeremy
"The love of truth is compatible with the recognition of uncertainty."Bentham, Jeremy
"Truth always rests with the minority because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion."Kierkegaard, Søren
"The crowd is untruth."Kierkegaard, Søren
"Just as in the physical world we have day and night, so in the mental world we have truth and falsehood."Kierkegaard, Søren
"A person can know the truth and still be enslaved by it."Kierkegaard, Søren
"There are no eternal facts, only eternal interpretations."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"The greatest deception is self-deception."Kant, Immanuel
"A lie always does more harm in the long run."Kant, Immanuel
"To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter."Marx, Karl
"The demand to give up illusions about the condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."Marx, Karl
"The true is the whole."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"Truth is like a bad reputation; once it spreads, it is difficult to contain."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"Misfortune is the path to truth."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"The real is reasonable; whatever is reasonable is real."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"The pursuit of truth requires the sacrifice of comfortable illusions."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"The pursuit of certainty often leads us away from truth rather than toward it."Berkeley, George
"Our ideas are the only true measure of reality; everything else is abstraction."Berkeley, George
"The deepest truths are often hidden in plain sight, obscured by our own assumptions."Berkeley, George
"The greatest deception is the belief in a world independent of all consciousness."Berkeley, George
"The beauty of truth lies partly in its simplicity once fully understood."Berkeley, George
"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous."Hume, David
"Truth is the whole."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"The true is the whole."Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich