I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas JeffersonTags: truth
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre CorneilleTags: truth
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Noam ChomskyTags: truth
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Tags: truth honesty integrity moral-courage honor obligation
The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Leo RostenTags: inspirational truth purpose
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Søren KierkegaardTags: truth willful-ignorance self-deception fools blindness willful-blindness
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
Franz KafkaTags: truth
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
Diane SetterfieldTags: truth
Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonTags: truth animals dogs seekers
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
C.S. LewisTags: truth belief life-and-death
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