Truth Quotes

"I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."

"Imagination may deceive, but reason cannot."

"We must distinguish between what is merely legal and what is truly just."

"Public reason requires that political justifications appeal to values citizens can share."

"The real is the rational and the rational is the real"

"Truth emerges through dialogue and debate"

"The true is the whole"

"He that would seriously set upon the search of truth ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it."

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection."

"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."

"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."

"Covenants, without the sword, are but words."

"Hell is truth seen too late."

"We arrive at truth, not by the reason of one man, but by the united judgment of many."

"Pacts without swords are but words."

"The truth of a proposition is never striven for as an end but only as a means."

"A lie is an untruth spoken with the intent to deceive."

"We must renounce the theory that the unaided individual mind can arrive at truth"

"When I am convinced of any principle, I am bound by it"

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion"

"A lie is always wrong, even to save a life."

"Truth cannot be subjective; it is objective or it is not truth."

"Lying corrupts the very foundation of human communication."

"Truth and probability, when they cannot be established by facts and reasoning, must be settled by analogy."

"The true is the whole, and the whole can only be grasped through negation."

"Truth is not correspondence but the coherence of the whole."

"The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things."

"Whoever has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea."

"The imagination can be deceived, but reason cannot be deceived."

"Hell is truth seen too late."