But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.
Edmund BurkeStichwörter: truth liberty freedom virtue
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
J.D. SalingerStichwörter: truth
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: truth
We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónThat truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
William ShakespeareStichwörter: truth
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine GordimerStichwörter: truth
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?
PlatoStichwörter: truth learning ethics
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus AureliusStichwörter: truth
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
Marcus AureliusStichwörter: truth prejudice open-mindedness
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: truth goodness simplicity
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