PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTES ABOUT TRUTH

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“The truth will set you free.” – Plato

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” – Albert Einstein

“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” – Isaac Newton

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde

“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.” – Pearl S. Buck

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” – Elvis Presley

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.” – Miyamoto Musashi

“I am a firm believer in the power of facts. The truth matters.” – Michelle Obama

“The biggest enemy of truth is not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Buddha

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple; it’s complex and messy.” – Stephen Fry

“The pursuit of truth requires us to question, doubt, and challenge our own beliefs, as well as the beliefs of others.” – Carl Sagan

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.” – Matthew Arnold

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” – Augustine of Hippo

“Truth is the first casualty of war.” – Aeschylus

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

“One of the greatest accomplishments one can have is discovering the truth for oneself.” – Socrates