Truth Quotes

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

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"The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The essence of any individual thing involves a certain eternal and infinite expression."
Spinoza, Baruch
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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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"Prejudice is an obstacle to the acquisition of truth."
Descartes, René
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"Doubt is the first step toward truth."
Descartes, René
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"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Descartes, René
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"Silence is the greatest respect one can pay to truth."
Descartes, René
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"All that is clear and distinct in our thought is true."
Descartes, René
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"Reason is the lamp that illuminates the path to truth."
Descartes, René
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"Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues."
Al-Ghazali
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"Truth is like the sun; it cannot be hidden for long."
Al-Ghazali
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"The truth, though delayed, will ultimately prevail."
Al-Ghazali
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"The proof of a thing is its existence; without proof there is no existence."
Avicenna
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"Truth is like the sun; you cannot look directly at it without being blinded."
Avicenna
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"The pursuit of truth is the noblest of all pursuits."
Avicenna
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"The rational soul seeks truth as naturally as the eye seeks light."
Avicenna
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"The power of words lies in their truth."
Avicenna
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"Covetousness, ambition, revenge are rooted in the human heart."
Locke, John
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"The secret to understanding men is to understand what they fear."
Locke, John
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"The greatest obstacle to truth is the assumption that we already possess it."
Locke, John
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"The pursuit of truth is the highest calling of the human mind."
Locke, John
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"The truth will not set you free unless you have the courage to speak it."
Locke, John
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"Nothing is more useful than for writers to distinguish between the seeming and the real."
Hume, David
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"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
Hume, David
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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 endeavors to establish."
Hume, David
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"In all matters we must distinguish between the appearance of a thing and its reality."
Hume, David
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"Truth does not contradict truth."
Averroes
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"The greater the man, the greater his love of truth."
Averroes
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"Truth is eternal and unchanging."
Averroes
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"The unity of truth transcends all human divisions."
Averroes