Truth Quotes

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

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"Authenticity is the best policy."
Frankie Boyle
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"The pursuit of truth requires us to question even the most ancient of beliefs."
Anaximander
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"The patterns we see in nature are the handwriting of eternal laws."
Anaximander
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"Nature requires no permission from humans to follow its own laws."
Anaximander
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"Truth is hidden in the depths, like a precious gem; one must dig deep to find it."
Democritus
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"The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie, but the belief in its permanence."
Democritus
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"The man who serves truth serves the highest ideal of mankind."
Democritus
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"What is, is eternal; what is not, never was."
Parmenides
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"Reality is one, unchanging, and indivisible."
Parmenides
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"The senses deceive us into believing in multiplicity and change."
Parmenides
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"What truly is cannot have come from nothing, nor pass into nothing."
Parmenides
P
"What is, cannot cease to be; what is not, cannot begin to be."
Parmenides
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"There is no becoming in the heart of all that is real."
Parmenides
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"Being is not distributed among many things, but is one indivisible whole."
Parmenides
P
"What truly exists must exist necessarily and eternally."
Parmenides
P
"Reality brooks no argument, tolerates no debate, admits no compromise."
Parmenides
P
"What exists without cause, without origin, without end—this is true Being."
Parmenides
P
"Being is perfect, and perfection admits no alteration."
Parmenides
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"Reality cannot be in flux, for flux itself is a logical impossibility."
Parmenides
P
"Being and non-being cannot coexist; one must be chosen over the other."
Parmenides
P
"What is cannot be lost, cannot be gained, cannot be transformed."
Parmenides
P
"The senses promise much but deliver only confusion and error."
Parmenides
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"What exists must be complete, for completion is the nature of Being."
Parmenides
P
"Being cannot be separated from itself, divided, or parceled out."
Parmenides
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"In silence, we often find our deepest truths."
Euripides
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"The heart knows truths that reason cannot reach."
Euripides
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"To speak truth in a world of lies is an act of revolution."
Euripides
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"An evil life is not overcome by the advice of others, but only by the truth within oneself."
Sophocles
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"Truth is stronger than fiction; you cannot invent anything that surpasses the power of the real."
Sophocles
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"The pursuit of truth is the noblest of all human endeavors."
Sophocles