truth Quotes

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in... ...

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the... ...