Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"When faced with a contradiction, one must examine the assumptions on both sides."Maimonides
"Let your words be carefully selected, for they shall outlive you."Maimonides
"We must not say the impossible is true; we must neither believe nor accept it."Maimonides
"Truth requires both reason and experience to be fully understood."Maimonides
"In debate, victory matters less than the pursuit of truth."Maimonides
"Consciousness of oneself is consciousness of a determinate being."Spinoza, Baruch
"Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves."Spinoza, Baruch
"True knowledge is the knowledge of particular things through God."Spinoza, Baruch
"Good and evil are relative to the perceiver."Spinoza, Baruch
"What the mind clearly understands cannot be doubted."Spinoza, Baruch
"Perfection and reality are the same."Spinoza, Baruch
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known."Descartes, René
"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
"I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."Descartes, René
"Truth is immutable; it is the same today as it was a thousand years ago."Descartes, René
"Never accept anything as true until you have verified it yourself."Descartes, René
"Everything that is clear in the mind must be clearly expressed in words."Descartes, René
"I would rather be a small man in pursuit of truth than a great man pursuing falsehood."Descartes, René
"The path to truth lies through doubt and skepticism."Descartes, René
"Those who deny the existence of truth live in a prison of their own making."Avicenna
"The scholar's ink is more valuable than the martyr's blood when used for truth."Al-Ghazali
"The person of integrity is worth more than a thousand hypocrites."Al-Ghazali
"Truth may be delayed, but it cannot be denied forever."Al-Ghazali
"The person of integrity sleeps peacefully while the deceiver lies awake."Al-Ghazali
"The purpose of all discourse is to further truth."Augustine of Hippo
"What is truth but the way things actually are?"Augustine of Hippo
"Truth has teeth; it bites."Augustine of Hippo
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."Thomas Aquinas
"The appetite for truth is natural to all men."Thomas Aquinas
"Truth cannot contradict truth."Thomas Aquinas