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
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"Truth requires us to hold our beliefs lightly enough to revise them when confronted with evidence."
Mill, John Stuart
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"The test of sincerity is the power to endure consequences."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Truth is the first casualty in the war between power and principle."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"The pursuit of truth requires the freedom to err."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"The love of truth is compatible with the recognition of uncertainty."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Truth always rests with the minority because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The crowd is untruth."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Just as in the physical world we have day and night, so in the mental world we have truth and falsehood."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"A person can know the truth and still be enslaved by it."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"There are no eternal facts, only eternal interpretations."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The greatest deception is self-deception."
Kant, Immanuel
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"A lie always does more harm in the long run."
Kant, Immanuel
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"To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter."
Marx, Karl
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"The demand to give up illusions about the condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."
Marx, Karl
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"The true is the whole."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Truth is like a bad reputation; once it spreads, it is difficult to contain."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Misfortune is the path to truth."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The real is reasonable; whatever is reasonable is real."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The pursuit of truth requires the sacrifice of comfortable illusions."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The pursuit of certainty often leads us away from truth rather than toward it."
Berkeley, George
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"Our ideas are the only true measure of reality; everything else is abstraction."
Berkeley, George
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"The deepest truths are often hidden in plain sight, obscured by our own assumptions."
Berkeley, George
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"The greatest deception is the belief in a world independent of all consciousness."
Berkeley, George
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"The beauty of truth lies partly in its simplicity once fully understood."
Berkeley, George
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"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
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"Truth is the whole."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The true is the whole."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich