Truth Quotes

"Truth is discovered, not invented."

"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies."

"Truth has a way of emerging, no matter how it is suppressed."

"In silence, we often find truth."

"Scientists are not objective observers; they are participants in a human enterprise."

"We cannot step outside our historical moment to view it objectively."

"What we call facts are actually the products of scientific activity."

"The evidence never speaks for itself; it is always interpreted by theory."

"The incommensurability of paradigms does not mean they are equally good."

"What we call facts are actually the stable products of a paradigm at work."

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths."

"The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself all that is real."

"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual humility."

"Myths are not false; they are true in a different way."

"Truth often appears paradoxical when viewed from a single perspective."

"Truth is not handed down from on high; it is created through inquiry."

"The pursuit of absolute truth often obscures partial truths."

"Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it or to refute it."

"If we are uncritical we shall always find what we expect; we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall ignore, or misjudge, the rest."

"If you wish to improve your arguments, you must seek not to win the debate, but to understand the truth."

"In matters of intellectual honesty, there are no small compromises."

"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction must make sense."

"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual honesty."

"Truth, once discovered, cannot be suppressed forever."

"There is an important lesson in the fact that modern logic cannot exclude the law of excluded middle."

"The criterion of meaningful discourse cannot itself be meaningful discourse."

"The truth conditions of a statement depend upon our entire system of beliefs."

"The notion of 'true for me but not for you' is incoherent."

"The correspondence theory of truth founders on the question of correspondence."

"The notion of a fact independent of conceptualization is unclear."