Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Truth (plato.standford.edu)
Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth.
You can’t handle the truth!
Col. Jessup, A Few Good MenI’m here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way.
Superman, Superman (1978)Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Hecule Poirot in The Murder of Roger AckroydSir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli, Agricultural DistressParis flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
Émile Zola, Paris (1898)If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace Mann Journal entry (29 October 1838)I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Gandhi dedicated his life to discovering and pursuing truth, or Satya, and called his movement satyagraha, which means “appeal to, insistence on, or reliance on the Truth”.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainGet your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark TwainIf you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark TwainIn order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
René Descartes (1644), Principles of PhilosophyMy little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 KJVThen you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8:32 NIV