So, I think that’s the centerpiece
of morality: Don’t lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find
out what the truth is. You know, it’s easy to say, “I’ll never tell a lie.” But
if you say, “I’m going to speak the truth,” you’re going to have to work damn
hard to find out what the truth is. The next thing is just plain, old, simple
kindness: to other people, to your family. Love for other people. I think that’s
another very important part of morality, being genuinely compassionate and concerned
about the feelings and well being of other people, especially those that depend
on you directly. -- George
McGovern
I was brought up to believe
that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information
in the world. -- Margaret
Mead
"We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is
left when we drop all concepts." -- David Merzel
A
lie has speed, but truth has endurance. -- Edgar J. Mohn
Everyone
is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. -- Daniel Patrick
Moynihan
Most
truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least
a little bit. -- Edward
R. Murrow
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth
may not perhaps be entirely with us."
-- Jawaharlal
Nehru
And
we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced
at least once. And we should call every truth false which
was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
When
we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
We cease to grow. -- Anais Nin
The
personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. -- Anais
Nin
In a time
of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -- George
Orwell
Myths which
are believed in tend to become true. -- George Orwell
All
the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. --
Wilfred Owen
Anarchism has but
one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth,
freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully. -- Lucy
Parsons, 1905
We know the truth,
not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal
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"This
is the way of peace:
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth,
and hatred with love." -- Peace
Pilgrim
"This is the way of peace:
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and
hatred with love." -- Peace
Pilgrim
It is not the possession
of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the
seeker and brings happiness to him. -- Max Planck
We
have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend
is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or
mistrust or with fear. -- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
"Patriotism means
to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other
public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the
country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country.
It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or
otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is
unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
What a man
believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires
of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes
against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence
is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered
something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he
will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained
in this way. -- Bertrand
Russell