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