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