I am the way of the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man. Thomas Paine
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain
The only people mad at you for speaking the truth are those living a lie. Keep speaking it. Gaskina Jr.
The way of truth is along the path of intellectual sincerity. Henry Smith Pritchett
I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world. Charlie Munger, Vice Chaiman, Berkshire & Hathaway
When things are not going well, until you get the truth out on the table, no matter how ugly, you are not in a position to deal with it. Bob Seelert, Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide (New York)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth at any cost reduces all other costs. Robert Steele
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Other Quotations Representative of Our Perspective:
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry. Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power. Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. James Madison
When a nation begins to think, it is impossible to hold it back. Voltaire
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virftues make them vulnerable: they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. Ernest Hemingway
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else. Fedor Dostoevsky
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
Top managers’ information is invariably either biased, subjecive, filtered or late. . . . Using intelligence correctly requires a fundamental change in the way top executives make decisions. Ben Gilad
The danger is, you’ll become like a moron. You’ll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours” [because of your blind faith in the value of your narrow and often incorrect secret information]. Daniel Ellsberg speaking to Henry Kissinger
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community. Carl Jung
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor. Alvin Toffler
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King II