Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"To be is to be perceived, and in that perception lies all of existence."George Berkeley
"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."George Berkeley
"The love of truth alone is a sufficient object to live for."George Berkeley
"The greatest delight of the human mind is truth."George Berkeley
"Truth needs no policy."Hugo Grotius
"Truth will always prevail."Hugo Grotius
"The mind is the instrument by which we perceive truth."Christian Wolff
"To deny the principle of contradiction is to deny thought itself."Christian Wolff
"What is necessary cannot be otherwise, and therein lies its perfection."Christian Wolff
"Truth never fears examination or honest inquiry."Christian Wolff
"Contradiction is the proof of falsity in all matters of reason."Christian Wolff
"Truth will always triumph over falsehood in the end"Jean Bodin
"Truth is the foundation of all trust"Jean Bodin
"A man's greatest treasure is his conscience."Hugo Grotius
"Truth is the daughter of time."Hugo Grotius
"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual humility."Hugo Grotius
"The conscience is the true guide to action."Hugo Grotius
"Truth emerges through dialogue and the meeting of different minds."Johann Herder
"Truth survives all attempts to obscure or destroy it."Johann Herder
"The pursuit of truth requires us to abandon comfortable falsehoods."Catharine Macaulay
"Truth-telling in the face of power requires both courage and principle."Catharine Macaulay
"The test of a principle is whether we apply it equally to ourselves and others."Catharine Macaulay
"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."Johann Goethe
"Truth is like a torch, the more you shake it the more it shines."Johann Goethe
"There is no greater taskmaster than conscience, and no harsher judge than the heart."Friedrich Schiller
"The heart knows truths that the mind has not yet learned to express."Friedrich Schiller
"In matters of truth, clarity of thought must overcome confusion and prejudice."Christian Wolff
"The nature of truth is to reveal itself to the diligent seeker of knowledge."Christian Wolff
"The pursuit of coherence in thought is the pursuit of truth itself."Christian Wolff
"Reason demands of us that we pursue truth wherever it leads, however distant."Christian Wolff