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