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