Quotes About Truth

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.