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
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"The foundation of virtue is in understanding the nature of things."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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"The pathway to truth requires us to examine our assumptions continually."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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"Truth cannot be forced upon the mind; it must be discovered."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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"We honor truth by continually testing our beliefs against reality."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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"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