truth Quotes

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which... ...

Poetry is deeper and more meaningful than history because it talks about general truths, while history talks about specific events.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better... ...

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Therefore, poetry is more philosophical and serious than history, because its statements are more universal, while history's are specific.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.