Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"A lie is a fiction that serves some purpose."Thomas Hobbes
"My sword has always been the servant of my conscience."José de San Martín
"Never surrender your principles for convenience."José de San Martín
"Truth cannot be conquered by any army."José de San Martín
"La verdad es revolucionaria; la mentira es conservadora."Benito Juárez
"La verdad siempre triunfa sobre la mentira, aunque sea lentamente."Benito Juárez
"La verdad es la luz que disipa la oscuridad."Benito Juárez
"La verdad prefiere la pobreza a la mentira próspera."Benito Juárez
"La verdad es el único fundamento sólido."Benito Juárez
"La verdad y la justicia son hermanas gemelas."Benito Juárez
"This being usually the case, that a man is not easily convinced of his mistakes till he finds himself ground by the consequences of them."John Locke
"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."John Locke
"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."John Locke
"Errors in the beginning must necessarily be infinite in the end."John Locke
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."John Locke
"The truth is what stands the test of experience."John Locke
"Belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our nature."David Hume
"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world."David Hume
"The human spirit cannot be conquered by force; it can only be liberated by truth."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"In the face of tyranny, silence is complicity; we must speak truth to power."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"Our enemies use force to maintain control; we use truth to gain liberation."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"Un hombre de honor prefiere la pobreza a la deshonra."José de San Martín
"La verdad siempre triunfa, aunque tarde."José de San Martín
"La verdad emerge siempre del fuego de la prueba."José de San Martín
"A man's own conscience is the best judge of his conduct."Thomas Hobbes
"Truth is the criterion of itself and of falsehood."Thomas Hobbes
"Insofar as Mind understands all things as necessary, it is affected with a certain kind of necessity."Baruch Spinoza
"Everything individual is temporary; only eternal things are real."Baruch Spinoza
"Repentance is sadness accompanying the idea of a past action judged wrong."Baruch Spinoza
"Truth will always prevail in the end."Benito Juárez