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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 / 






We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






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.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






Utopias are often just premature truths.
Alphonse de Lamartine - Histoire des Girondins / 






To devote one's life to the truth.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires / 






In wine, truth.
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain - Pudd'nhead Wilson / 






Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma Gandhi / 






To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton / 



To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 






Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Gustav Jung / 






The opposite of falsehood is not truth, but doubt.
Raphaël Enthoven / 






Truth and clarity are complementary.
Niels Bohr / 






Truth must gain ground without violence.
Leo Tolstoy / 






The first and last thing required of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 






Simplicity can only exist in what is true.
Abbé Pierre / 






An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime / 






Only truth can face injustice. Truth, or love.
Albert Camus / 






A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde / 






The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 






Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation / 






Let there be truth between us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris / 






Where there is no love there is also no truth.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach / 










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