Chase
after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself,
even though you never touch its coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow
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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
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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
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You
cannot kill the truth. You cannot kill justice.
You cannot kill what we are fighting for.
-- Jean Dominique
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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
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"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
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Falsehood
is easy, truth so difficult.
-- George Eliot
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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
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"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
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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 Gandhi
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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
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An
error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because
nobody sees it. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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Believe
those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find
it.
-- Andre Gide
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"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)
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"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
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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
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The
harder you try to suppress the truth, the more
inevitable it is that it will find a way to come
out.
-- Arianna
Huffington
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I
believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
-- Molly
Ivins
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