10 Aristotle Quotes on Truth

Aristotle quotes on truth

42. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

68. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. (1451b6)

71. Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. (1460a19)

76. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

81. All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

101. Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

132. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

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