Truth Quotes - Page 34

• We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Honesty, People, Faults

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• I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

  Channing Tatum

  Jesus, Wall, Thinking

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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately

  Honesty, Men, Policy

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

  William James

  Honesty, Integrity, Earnest

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• No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Men, Might

  Michel de Montaigne (1915). “The essays of Michael, lord of Montaigne”

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• I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

  David Duchovny

  Giving Up, Long, X Files

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• One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Evil, Growth, Democracy

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.360, Psychology Press

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• Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Appreciation, Real, Character

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Winning

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• We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.

  Malcolm X

  People, Unity, Important

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• What I tell you three times is true.

  Lewis Carroll

  Funny, Time, Three

  1876 The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the First: The Landing'.

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• Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Men, Coward

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• What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

  Starhawk

  Risk, Together, Doe

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• The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Lying, Roots

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• Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

  Bruce Lee

  Giving, Choices, Anxiety

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Book by Bruce Lee, 1975.

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• Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Hurt, Reality, Jumping

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• 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 Manilal Gandhi

  Philosophy, Grandfather, Improvement

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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• You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.

  Jack Nicholson

  Reality, Nine, Action

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• A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

  Epictetus

  Love, Men, Humans

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• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Joy, Sake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.

  Kenny Smith

  Life, Determination, Real

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• I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

  John Wycliffe

  Motivational, Honesty, Believe

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• I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Respect, Too Much, Drag

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• It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

  Madame Roland

  Wise, Respect, People

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