first truth

Noun

Meaning

first truth (plural first truths)

A statement that is not proved but rather supposed or held as obvious, forming together with other such statements the basis of a system of statements obtained from them by inference; an axiom.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. Hugh Shelton

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche

Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first truth you must accept for Future Proofing You is that nothing can be achieved without a growth mindset. Jay Samit

Close letter words and terms

first trimester first trip first trip of a vessel first undergraduate degree first unit first up