Truth Quotes

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

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"What is visible is merely the shadow of what is truly real."
Anaximenes
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"In the marketplace of ideas, only truth survives the test of reason."
Anaximenes
A
"The fundamental error is to separate mind from matter, spirit from substance."
Anaximenes
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"What is impious is to lie"
Empedocles
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"The truth needs no ornament"
Empedocles
E
"The pursuit of truth is the noblest work"
Empedocles
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"What is, is. What is not, is not."
Parmenides
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"You cannot know what is not."
Parmenides
P
"The path of persuasion accompanies truth."
Parmenides
P
"It is necessary to speak and think what is."
Parmenides
P
"The real world is one, eternal, and immutable."
Parmenides
P
"The road of night is a false path."
Parmenides
P
"Truth is eternal; falsehood is temporary."
Parmenides
P
"The path of truth is narrow and straight."
Parmenides
P
"The world of sense is a world of illusion."
Parmenides
P
"Reality is radically different from appearance."
Parmenides
P
"The world of becoming is fundamentally illusory."
Parmenides
P
"What is, is exactly what it is."
Parmenides
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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities"
Sophocles
S
"A lie travels round the world while truth is putting on her boots"
Sophocles
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"In time all secrets are made known."
Euripides
E
"Speech is a mirror of the soul."
Euripides
E
"The tongue speaks what the heart knows."
Euripides
E
"The price of truth is often a lonely path."
Euripides
E
"Mortals are foolish who believe they see truth with their eyes; the mind must interpret all perception."
Empedocles
E
"Every perception is both true and false; truth requires the integration of all perspectives."
Empedocles
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"A man may break a word with you, but keep his bond with himself."
Aristophanes
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"When the seed is cracked, the plant emerges; when certainty cracks, truth emerges."
Aristophanes
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"The most direct path is often the longest because it requires the most honesty."
Aristophanes
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
Frankie Boyle