Truthfulness Quotes (page 128)

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• fear
• knowledge
• truth

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. Thomas Jefferson

• fear
• feeling
• she

He now clearly perceived the truth which was henceforth to be the centre of his life, namely, that while she was there, while he had her near him, he would need nothing except for her sake and fear nothing except on her account. He was not even conscious of feeling extremely cold, having taken off his coat to cover her. Victor Hugo

• god
• dark
• shine

In darkness God's truth shines most clear. Corrie Ten Boom

• thinking
• patriotic
• adulting

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed. Paula Poundstone

• missing
• aunt
• talk

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is. Harper Lee

• fear
• ignorance
• vision

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears Hunter S. Thompson

• life
• cold
• truthfully

The life of truth is cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• free
• manly
• man

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. Albert Camus

• light
• vision
• cheer

And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision. Charlotte Bronte

• love
• change
• nice

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear. Augusten Burroughs

• humanity
• acceptance
• stupid

And yet, the chief deficiency I see in the sceptical movement is in its polarization: Us v. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you’re sensible, you’ll listen to us; and if not, you’re beyond redemption. This is unconstructive. It does not get the message across. It condemns the sceptics to permanent minority status; whereas, a compassionate approach that from the beginning acknowledges... Carl Sagan

• real
• earth
• burdens

The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Milan Kundera

• hear
• wants
• truths

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth Cornel West

• mind
• couple
• mindfulness

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach. Lawrence Durrell

• disagree
• truth
• disagreeable

Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell among themselves. Dwight L. Moody