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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

* Honesty is the best policy.
-- Benjamin Franklin

"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

* "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

* An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi

* Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
-- William Lloyd Garrison

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


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