truth Quotes

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.