I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Al PacinoThe great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
Bertrand RussellTags: truth philosophy
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
Ayn RandTags: truth
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George OrwellTags: truth
The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.
Franklin D. RooseveltWhatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
AnonymousTags: inspirational truth god bible
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.
Kevin SitesTags: truth war responsibility democracry
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
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