Chase
after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never
touch its coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay
guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. -- Simone
de Beauvoir
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the
truth; and truth rewarded me. -- Simone
de Beauvoir |
Nothing
is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to
be true.
-- Demosthenes
Truth
is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it.
--Emily Dickinson
Never
apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
History
is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people
think of as history is its end product, myth.
-- E. L. Doctorow
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You cannot kill the truth.
You cannot kill justice. You cannot kill what we are fighting for. -- Jean
Dominique |
Whenever
you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must
be the truth.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle
"I'm
not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there."
-- David Duchovny
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"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage
to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth..." --
Albert Einstein
Whoever
undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
-- Albert
Einstein
Unthinking
respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-- Albert
Einstein
| |
Falsehood is easy,
truth so difficult.
-- George Eliot
|
We must apply
our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I
want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society,
we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even
as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice.
Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open
our hands. -- Adolfo
Perez Esquivel |
"The
ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with
Truth."
-- Eliza Farnham
"We also learn that
this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and
scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to
making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson
of all."
-- John Hope Franklin
All
truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover
them.
-- Galileo
|
An
error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody
sees it.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
|
"Satyagraha
is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone
of everybody’s life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to
finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy
of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that
we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve
and become better human beings." -- Arun
Gandhi | |
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Truth
resides in every human heart, and one has to search
for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees
it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act
according to his own view of truth.
-- Mohandas
Gandhi
truthful
movements spontaneously attract to themselves all
manner of pure and disinterested help.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
|
Believe
those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
-- Andre Gide
"Never
be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not
succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or
justice or compassion or fairness or love." -- Doris
Haddock (Granny D) | |
| "Do
not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist
ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
|
| We
hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by
our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity
for the sake of ourselves and our world. -- Barbara
Marx Hubbard |
The harder you
try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to
come out. -- Arianna
Huffington |
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I
believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
-- Molly Ivins
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