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Truth Quotes by Aristotle

40 Truth quotes by Aristotle

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Aristotle says the soul helps us move closer to truth about nature. He notes that ambition and the desire for money often cause injustice. He also points out that people trust truth more when it comes from simple, sincere thinking rather than from a liar.

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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

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It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

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Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the…

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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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

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All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

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

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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

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“Even hackneyed and commonplace maxims are to be used, if they suit one's purpose: just because they are commonplace, every one seems…

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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth…

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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts…

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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of…

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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole…

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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those…

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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

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The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can…

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“For the carpenter's and the geometer's inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his…

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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not…

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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual…

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The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact…

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably… For this…

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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient…

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“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the…

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“But with regard to incomposites, what is being or not being, and truth or falsity? A thing of this sort is not…

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“Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.”

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

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

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Authority is no source for Truth.

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A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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Men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth.

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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is…

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.