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

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

Aristotle
Truth, Science, Men

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle
Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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

Aristotle
Truth, Honesty, Ethics
Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

Aristotle
Truth, Would Be
Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Aristotle
Truth, Knowing, Causes

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle
Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

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

Aristotle
Love, Friendship, Truth
Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.201, Hackett Publishing

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

Aristotle
Truth, Honesty, Plato
Greek original ascribed to Aristotle

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
Truth, History, Giving
Aristotle, Longinus, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1932). “The poetics”

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
Nature, Truth, Mind
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