Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
The language of truth is simple.
Love truth, but pardon error.
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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.
The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.
Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
Time reveals the truth.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.
In excessive altercation, truth is lost.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
In wine, truth.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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.
Conformity of the intellect to the things.
Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
A society is only strong when it opens the truth up to the bright light of the sun.
Truth is the sun of intelligence.
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
In affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.
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