Truth Quotes

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

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"To abandon truth for comfort is to trade eternity for a moment."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"The strength of truth is that it requires no defense."
Nicodemus Copernicus
"The scalpel is a tool of truth, cutting away ignorance."
Andreas Vesalius
"To question tradition is to honor truth."
Andreas Vesalius
"The truth of anatomy cannot be denied by those who witness it."
Andreas Vesalius
"The scalpel reveals what pride would conceal."
Andreas Vesalius
"The greatest authority is the evidence before your eyes."
Andreas Vesalius
"Truth preserved in silence is truth denied."
Andreas Vesalius
"Tradition without truth is merely habit."
Andreas Vesalius
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"The greatest deception is believing that knowledge and wisdom are one and the same."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"The truth that wounds is infinitely preferable to the lie that comforts."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"Truth emerges from the study of natural things, not from mere speculation."
Bernardino Telesio
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"Nature never deceives; only our interpretations of nature mislead us."
Bernardino Telesio
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"Reality is not what ancients declared it to be, but what nature itself shows."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"The natural order is the truest foundation for human knowledge."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"The senses deceive us less often than our prejudices do."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"What nature demonstrates is always more trustworthy than what authority claims."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"The observer who sets aside prejudice begins to see nature as it truly is."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"Nature's constancy amidst apparent change reveals underlying order."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"Nature's constancy in principle amidst variation in detail reveals deep truth."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"Nature is the truest teacher because it cannot lie about its own principles."
Bernardino Telesio
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"The truth may be bitter, but the lie is more expensive."
Cosimo de Medici
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"The measure of a person is not their achievements, but their integrity."
Edward Wotton
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"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to admit what we do not know."
Edward Wotton
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"In the space between questions and answers, truth often hides."
Edward Wotton
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"In the pursuit of truth, comfort must sometimes be sacrificed."
Paracelsus
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"The mind that seeks truth must be willing to abandon comfortable lies."
Paracelsus
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"The truth, however painful, is always preferable to comfortable lies."
Cosimo de Medici
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"Truth hidden is truth denied to the seeker."
Giovan Battista della Porta
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"To speak truth is to light a candle in darkness."
Giovan Battista della Porta