Truth Quotes

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

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"The external world exists; what is questionable is only how we know it."
Willard Van Orman Quine
"We must distinguish between what society appears to be and what it fundamentally is."
Georg Lukács
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"What is called truth is determined by the paradigm one inhabits."
Thomas Kuhn
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"Scientific truth is not discovered but constructed within a paradigm."
Thomas Kuhn
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"Scientific truth is paradigm-dependent."
Thomas Kuhn
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"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The source of all evil is the failure to understand."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Truth is something that survives only in the context of an ongoing search."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Authenticity means accepting our embeddedness in the world."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The world resists our attempts to reduce it to concepts."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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"There are no final answers."
Karl Popper
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"The most important thing in the search for truth is not to find it, but to be ready for it."
Karl Popper
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"I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort we may get nearer the truth."
Karl Popper
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"The pursuit of truth is the noblest of all endeavors."
Karl Popper
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"The search for truth never ends."
Karl Popper
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"The pursuit of truth is often confused with the pursuit of facts."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Reality is much more complex than our theories about it."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Consensus can be the enemy of truth."
Paul Feyerabend
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"What we call objective facts are always interpreted through subjective lenses."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Truth is a tool, not a destination."
Paul Feyerabend
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"What we call facts are often just well-established interpretations."
Paul Feyerabend
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"The pursuit of certainty is the enemy of understanding."
Paul Feyerabend
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"The human capacity for self-deception is limited only by imagination."
Paul Feyerabend
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"The universe is what it is, independent of our descriptions."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Coherence is the best test of truth we possess."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Reality constrains but does not determine our theories."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"The world as described is relative to a description."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Truth is what science asymptotically approaches."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Reality is not language-independent but language-schema-dependent."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"There is no such thing as absolute truth in economics."
Ludwig von Mises