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

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

"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

 

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