Truth Quotes - Page 15

• The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

  Aristotle

  Honesty, Ethics, Deviation

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Inspirational, Doubt, Revealing

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• I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Inspirational, God, Lying

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

  Robert Menzies

  Hope, Wisdom, Regret

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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, People, Religion

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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  We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

  Ann Richards

  Leadership, America, Political

  Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.

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• Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell the truth. I felt more at ease being bold with some than I did with others. I was incredibly fortunate to have worked with Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor. We share enough taste in music and art to have had a real camaraderie, and luckily that evolved into a deep friendship.

  Gale Harold

  Movie, Art, Real

  "Queer as Folk ‘s Gale Harold". Interview with lana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  Hans Eysenck

  Responsibility, Science, Psychology

  Hans Eysenck (2017). “Rebel with a Cause”, p.129, Routledge

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• There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

  Brad Stine

  Differences, Knowing, Offending

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• Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Strong, Fear, Believe

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• I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

  Elena Kagan

  Wisdom, School, Learning

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

  Andrew Solomon

  Happiness, Depression, Taken

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

  Neil Postman

  Fear, Book, Reading

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

  Ayn Rand

  Death, Words Of Wisdom, Killing

  "Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand". Book by Nathaniel Brandon, 1989.

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• I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are...
  because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a
  public.

  Chelsea Manning

  People, Decision, Society

  "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Live Life

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• I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

  Lisette Model

  Love, Photography, Passion

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  Walter Anderson

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Honesty, Integrity, Sirens

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

  Daniel Handler

  Business, Book, Writing

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• The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

  Adrienne Rich

  Want Something, Speak, Unconscious

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

  Trust, Courage, Sake

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• Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  William S. Burroughs

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.435, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Delight

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