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