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Quotes About Truth

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.
~ Amy Adams
Knowledge is justified belief.
~ Jerome Bruner
A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.
~ Proclus
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
~ Coco Chanel
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.
~ Judy Tenuta
Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.
~ Lin Yutang
To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
~ John Denver
Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
~ Saahil Prem
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
~ Aeschylus
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
~ Akkineni Nagarjuna
A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
~ C. S. Lewis
Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.
~ Hans Morgenthau
Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.
~ Valerie Jarrett
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
~ Ram Dass
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb
~ John Milton
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
~ Karl Marx
I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
~ Lin Yutang
The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
~ David Bowie
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
~ Ayn Rand
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
~ Saint John Chrysostom