Aristotle Quotes on Truth
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. (1451b6)
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. (1460a19)
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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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.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.