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