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 language of truth is simple.
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Love truth, but pardon error.
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Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.
In excessive altercation, truth is lost.
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.
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.
Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Hope is a great falsifier of truth.
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.
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.
It is often easier to discover a truth than to assign to it its proper place.
Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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