Quotes About Truth

An excuse is a lie guarded.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.

All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

It's never too late to stop believing a lie, " said Thomas. "You need only courage and friends, and you have both.

Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.