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Quotes for: truth




Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
Bertolt Brecht / 






Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
André Gide / 



Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.




The language of truth is simple.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






Love truth, but pardon error.
Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom / 



Love truth, but pardon error.

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon - Novum organum / 



Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Emanuel Swedenborg / 






Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.
André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie / 






On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / 






Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Gustav Jung / 






The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the History of Philosophy / 






There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy / 






Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux / 






Time reveals the truth.
Seneca / 






The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr / 






Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.
Victor Hugo / 






In excessive altercation, truth is lost.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 






Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill / 






In wine, truth.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw / 






If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain / 






If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 






To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo / 






Conformity of the intellect to the things.
Thomas Aquinas / 






Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 






Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 






We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






A society is only strong when it opens the truth up to the bright light of the sun.
Émile Zola / 






Truth is the sun of intelligence.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 






I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
Alphonse de Lamartine - La Marseillaise de la Paix. — Réponse à M Becker / 






In affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.
Demosthenes / 










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