Adequate Quote by Baruch Spinoza

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth…

— Baruch Spinoza

“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he…

— Harry Frankfurt

“I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might be able…

— René Descartes

“beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“concentrate on knowing what is falsey, and then everything else you can consider truthy. Let’s look at some examples of using these falsey values”

— Eric Freeman

“[T]he absolutely true...exists, and i know what it is. The problem is that you know too, and that we know different things, which puts…

— Stanely Fish

What is true is true, and what is false is false...

— Emanuel Swedenborg

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

— Soren Kierkegaard

He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their…

— John Stuart Mill