Truth Quote by René Descartes — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There is nothing more ancient than the truth.”

“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”

“Dubium sapientiae initium. (”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.”

“Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?”

“To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.”

“Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks,”

“Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane--in the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bath--she had probably put herself in unnecessary danger.”