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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. -- John Churton Collins
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. -- John C. Wright
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. -- Alan Dershowitz
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher. -- George Edward Woodberry
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. -- Graham Greene
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. -- Lactantius
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities. -- Alison Gopnik
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? -- James Fenimore Cooper
Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth. -- Plato
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. -- Averroes
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa. -- Johann Georg Hamann
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. -- Cesare Pavese
I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites. -- Mario Bunge
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets. -- Kurt Vonnegut

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