Truth Quotes

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

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"Nature does not lie to those who ask her questions carefully."
Carl Linnaeus
"Truth is not always comfortable, but its absence is always destructive."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"The love of truth is the most noble of all pursuits."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"A moment of regret is worse than a lifetime of poverty."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"The contemplation of truth is the highest pleasure of the human soul."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"The pursuit of truth often requires the abandonment of comfortable lies."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"To be true to oneself is to be disloyal to falsehood."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Let us gather our instruments and our talents, and employ them in the service of truth."
Jean d'Alembert
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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered."
Jean d'Alembert
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"Truth is beauty, and beauty is truth."
Jean d'Alembert
"The foundation of virtue is in understanding the nature of things."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"The pathway to truth requires us to examine our assumptions continually."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Truth cannot be forced upon the mind; it must be discovered."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"We honor truth by continually testing our beliefs against reality."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Truth demands that we question not just what we are taught, but how we learn."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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"We are born into a world of illusions, and most never awaken to reality."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves about nature."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Nature requires no intermediary; neither should truth."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Nature never lies, but men constantly lie about nature."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Nature does not allow exceptions to its laws."
Carl Linnaeus
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"Each observation builds the foundation of truth."
Carl Linnaeus
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"The book of nature is written without errors."
Carl Linnaeus
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"The love of nature is the love of truth."
Carl Linnaeus
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"In the pursuit of truth, the journey itself becomes the greatest reward."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"In science, as in life, the most dangerous errors are those we do not know we are making."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"Truth has a peculiar quality: it needs no defense, for reality itself defends it."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"In science, conviction without evidence is not virtue; it is vice."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"The pursuit of truth is a pursuit without end, and therein lies its dignity."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"The scientist must be a skeptic, not of nature, but of his own conclusions."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe things because one wishes them to be so."
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon