Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of truth."
Avicenna
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"The beauty of truth is that it need not be decorated."
Avicenna
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"One must question, examine, and reason to arrive at truth."
Maimonides
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"Truth may be hidden, but it cannot be permanently suppressed."
Maimonides
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"He who has a true love of truth must be allowed to pursue it freely."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"An idea of an existing body is necessarily true."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Eternal truth has nothing to do with time."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Truth is that which persists under all scrutiny."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"The pursuit of truth demands intellectual honesty."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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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, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish."
Hume, David
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"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracles attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestionable good sense."
Hume, David
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic belief held without question."
Hume, David
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"If you would be a real seeker of truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
Descartes, René
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"Seeing is not always believing."
Descartes, René
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"The eyes are easily deceived."
Descartes, René
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"Truth is immutable."
Descartes, René
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"My nature is employing itself wholly about the truth of events."
Descartes, René
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"He that would seriously set upon the search of truth ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it."
Locke, John
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"Error is no less an error because it is ancient, and truth is no less the truth because it is new."
Locke, John
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"The soul yearns for truth as the body yearns for food."
Al-Ghazali
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"The soul recognizes truth immediately, unlike the mind which doubts."
Al-Ghazali
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"Truth stands alone; it needs no support from falsehood."
Al-Ghazali
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"The pursuit of truth requires courage, for it often challenges what we believe."
Avicenna
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"Truth may be hidden, but it cannot be destroyed."
Avicenna
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"Truth stands on its own merit; it needs no external support."
Maimonides
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"Truth cannot be killed, for it is eternal."
Maimonides
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"Truth is found not in isolated facts but in the connections between them."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"What is not true in all respects cannot be true in any respect."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"In the realm of ideas, contradiction is the mark of falsity."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"He who has a true love of truth must be allowed to follow it freely, wherever it may lead."
Spinoza, Baruch