Truth Quotes - Page 60

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; but the denial stays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.

One handles truths like dynamite.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.