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TRUTH
The
beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we
come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the
truth.
-- Pierre Abelard
The truth which has made us free will in the end make
us glad also.
-- Felix
Adler
On
April Fools Day people delight in trying to trick
others with tall tales. Unfortunately, too often people
find themselves falling into the habit of telling
little white lies and tall tales, in an effort to
get ahead or to avoid getting into trouble. Tell The
Truth Day is an opportunity to remind ourselves that
telling the truth is a powerful virtue that we might
sometimes find ourselves bypassing. By consciously
making an effort to be truthful on Tell The Truth
Day, we remember that telling the truth really is
the best policy not just on Tell The Truth Day, but
everyday.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
Truth
is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged
by silence.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
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
One
isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born
with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice
any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind,
true, merciful, generous, or honest.
-- Maya
Angelou
Honesty
is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence
and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
-- Mary Kay Ash
*
The
least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied
later a thousandfold.
-- Aristotle
(384-322 BC)
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not
say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius
It
is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your
friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot
bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth
through loving words, that is friendship.
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
The
opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But
the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound
truth.
-- Niels Bohr
It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got
to replace it with the truth.
-- Bono
I
am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a person's
right to know. I believe that in the absence of the
truth, all of us stand helpless to defend ourselves,
our families and our health, which is the greatest
gift we have.
-- Erin
Brockovich
If
you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut,
and if you extend your hand to help another, not for
any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are
going to find the truth.
-- Erin
Brockovich
The
truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is
dull without it.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
*
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak
the truth and expose lies.
-- Noam
Chomsky
Where
is there dignity unless there is honesty?
-- Cicero
The
world is too dangerous for anything but truth and
too small for anything but love.
-- William
Sloane Coffin
*
Truthiness
is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the
argument over who came up with the word... It used
to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion,
but not their own facts. But that's not the case
anymore
-- Stephen
Colbert
"Apply Truth liberally to the inflamed
area." -- Stephen
Colbert
"I
scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth."
-- Stephen
Colbert
The
greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is
prejudice, and her constant companion humility.
-- Charles Colton
Three
things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the
truth.
-- Confucious
Chase
after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself,
even though you never touch its coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow
*
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
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
*
"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
*
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
I
believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth. -- Molly
Ivins
The
greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest
of our truths.
-- William James
We
hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all
men are created equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
Ignorance
is preferable to error, and he is less remote
from the truth who believes nothing than he who
believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
Honesty
is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
In
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December
1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is
acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence
there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right
of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment
of moral good and of justice, and also the right to
a dignified life.
-- Pope John XXIII, 1881-1963 Pacem in Terris, 1963
The
first casualty, when war comes, is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson
I
believe much trouble and blood would be saved
if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you
in my way how the Indian sees things. The white
man has more words to tell you how they look to
him, but it does not require many words to speak
the truth.
-- Chief
Joseph (1732-1794)
The
great enemy of the truth is very often not the
lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest --
but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic
-- John
F. Kennedy
The
greatest truth must be recognition that in every
man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not
only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready
exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
-- Elizabeth Kenny
Truth
always rests with the minority, and the minority is
always stronger than the majority, because the minority
is generally formed by those who really have an opinion,
while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed
by the gangs who have no opinion—and who, therefore,
in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority
is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth
again reverts to a new minority.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
*
I
refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality.... I believe that
unarmed truth and unconditional love will have
the final word.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
“Politics
determines who has the power, not who has the truth."
-- Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize-winning economist)
*
…in
place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power,
a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible.
People of all faiths need to shape a political and
social movement that reaffirms the most generous,
peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving
truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.
-- Rabbi
Michael Lerner
Truth
is generally the best vindication against slander.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
You
can fool some of the people all of the time, and
all of the people some of the time, but you can
not fool all of the people all of the time.
-- Abraham
Lincoln (attributed)
It
is one thing to show a man that he is in error,
and another to put him in possession of truth.
-- John
Locke
One
unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining
any proposition with greater assurance than the
proofs it is built upon will warrant.
-- John
Locke
Justice
and truth are the common ties of society -- John
Locke
The
more honest you can be, the less you have to hide...
when I have nothing to hide, I have everything
to give. -- Kenny
Loggins
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
“Listening
causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.”
- Loreena McKennitt
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
*
"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
Our
interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating
truth of the 21st century. One stark result is
that the world's poor live, and especially die,
with the awareness that the United States is doing
little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation
that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually
the escape from poverty.
-- Jeffrey
Sachs
"All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted
as being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Because
I have confidence in the power of truth, and of
the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
It
is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule
when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish
to suppose that black men were really human beings and
ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has
now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered
as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every
form of life as being the serious demand of a rational
ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed
that the human race existed so long before it recognized
that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real
ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility
to everything that has life.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
New
opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies,
then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions
open to discussion, and finally as established
truths.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
"I
would like the church to be a place where the
questions of people are honored rather than a
place where we have all the answers. The church
has to get out of propaganda. The future will
involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We
cannot say we have the only truth."
-- Bishop
John Shelby Spong
Reformers
who are always compromising, have not yet grasped
the idea that truth is the only safe ground
to stand upon.
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The
moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we
should speak, the divine floods of light and
life no longer flow into our souls
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The
truth will set you free. But first, it will piss
you off.
-- Gloria
Steinem
*
I can't tell you how many times we'll run into a
journalist and go, "Boy that's…I wish we could be
saying that. That's exactly the way we see it and
that's exactly the way we'd like to be saying that."
And I always think, "Well, why don't you?"
-- Jon
Stewart
Fear
grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around,
turn on the light.
-- Dorothy Thompson
There
is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to
find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze
the causes of happenings.
-- Dorothy Thompson
The
lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or
a consistent expediency.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
Unity
without verity is no better than conspiracy.
-- John Trapp
Always
tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember
what you said.
-- Mark
Twain
In
religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and
without examination, from authorities who have not themselves
examined the questions at issue but have taken them
at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions
about them were not worth a brass farthing.
-- Mark
Twain
As
long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue
to commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire
There
are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It
is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the
devil.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
The
pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde
