Truth Quotes

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

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"Truth is the only permanent structure in an impermanent world."
Aristarchus
E
"The distance between stars mirrors the distance between truth and falsehood."
Eratosthenes
I
"The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks many."
Isocrates
I
"To speak the truth in times of falsehood is a revolutionary act."
Isocrates
P
"In the space between words lies the truth."
Pericles
P
"To question is to seek truth."
Pericles
P
"To speak truth in a world of lies is a revolutionary act."
Pericles
H
"A single observation, carefully recorded, outweighs a thousand careless assumptions."
Hipparchus
H
"Error in measurement is the first enemy of truth; vigilance is its guardian."
Hipparchus
H
"To doubt the evidence of your senses is to doubt; to test them is to know."
Hipparchus
G
"The best physician is the one who can tell the patient the truth about their condition."
Galen
G
"Truth in medicine is not always pleasant."
Galen
G
"The greatest obstacle to healing is denial."
Galen
G
"To question is to seek truth."
Galen
P
"The wise person knows that truth is often uncomfortable, but falsehood is always destructive."
Pericles
X
"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
Xenophon
X
"There is nothing better than truth."
Xenophon
X
"It takes no more time to tell the truth than it does to lie."
Xenophon
X
"The pursuit of truth is more valuable than its possession."
Xenophon
H
"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
Hippocrates
E
"The pursuit of truth requires us to abandon comfortable falsehoods."
Eratosthenes
E
"The pursuit of accuracy is the pursuit of truth itself."
Eratosthenes
E
"A single accurate observation is worth a thousand comfortable assumptions."
Eratosthenes
T
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Thucydides
T
"Men are slow to believe that which would hurt them if believed."
Thucydides
H
"Precision is not pedantry; it is the path to truth."
Hipparchus
H
"The apparent size of the sun tells us that perception deceives; reason must guide us."
Hipparchus
H
"Numbers never lie, but ignorant men will misinterpret them."
Hipparchus
H
"The astronomer learns that the universe cares not for human comfort."
Hipparchus
H
"Numbers transcend opinion; they are democracy's cure for rhetoric."
Hipparchus