Top 47 Quotes About Truth Aristotle
#1. Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac Newton
#2. Even hackneyed and commonplace maxims are to be used, if they suit one's purpose: just because they are commonplace, every one seems to agree with them, and therefore they are taken for truth.
Aristotle.
#3. The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
And made his torch their universal light.
So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.
John Dryden
#4. Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
Aristotle.
#5. The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
Aristotle.
#7. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle.
#8. The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Aristotle.
#9. All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
Aristotle.
#10. Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle.
#11. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle.
#12. For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle.
#13. A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
Aristotle.
#14. Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
Aristotle.
#15. Philosophy is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Raheel Farooq
#16. Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Aristotle.
#17. This Aristotle knew definitely: the truth has the power to force or constrain men, all men alike, whether it be the great Parmenides and the great Alexander or Parmenides' unknown slave and the least of Alexander's stable-men
Lev Shestov
#18. Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
Aristotle.
#19. When I saw that Moses' version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.
Gerardus Mercator
#20. Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Aristotle.
#21. The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle.
#22. Live as if you are the Jesus and learn as if you are the Aristotle.
Debasish Mridha
#23. wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It
Aristotle.
#24. Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
Diogenes
#25. A village idiot, in the literal sense, who really loves the truth, even when he only babbles, is in his thinking infinitely superior to Aristotle. He is infinitely nearer to Plato than Aristotle ever was.
Simone Weil
#26. The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.
Edgar Allan Poe
#27. When liars speak the truth, they are not believed. - ARISTOTLE (384 - 322 BC)
Bradford G. Wheler
#28. To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle.
#29. It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.
Aristotle.
#30. A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
Aristotle.
#32. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle.
#33. Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#34. A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably ... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
Aristotle.
#35. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
- Aristotle
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#36. The brilliancy of Aristotle's genius is shown by this alone, that he discovered, in the expression of the value of commodities, a relation of equality. The peculiar conditions of the society in which he lived, alone prevented him from discovering what, "in truth," was at the bottom of this equality.
Karl Marx
#37. It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
Gilbert Murray
#38. Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Aristotle.
#39. The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle.
#40. He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
Aristotle.
#41. The ultimate end ... is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
Aristotle.
#42. Whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
Aristotle.
#43. A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
Aristotle.
#44. The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.
Aristotle.
#45. With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
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#46. It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Aristotle.
#47. Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.
Aristotle.
