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  • #1
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #2
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #3
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #4
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #5
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    Nadine Gordimer

  • #8
    George R.R. Martin
    “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #11
    Jarod Kintz
    “Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.”
    Jarod Kintz, Great Listener Seeks Mute Women

  • #12
    Terry Goodkind
    “If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
    Terry Goodkind

  • #13
    Jodi Picoult
    “The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
    Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

  • #14
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “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.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “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. Lewis

  • #16
    Dorothy Allison
    “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
    Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

  • #17
    Veronica Roth
    “You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”
    Veronica Roth, Allegiant

  • #18
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

  • #19
    Abraham Lincoln
    “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.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #20
    George Orwell
    “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #21
    Walter Scott
    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
    Walter Scott, Marmion

  • #22
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

  • #23
    William Wilberforce
    “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
    William Wilberforce

  • #24
    Ayn Rand
    “The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #26
    Ray Bradbury
    “But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #27
    José N. Harris
    “There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.”
    José N. Harris

  • #28
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #29
    Kami Garcia
    “We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”
    Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

  • #30
    Aristotle
    “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
    Aristotle



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