Quotes Tagged "truth-telling"

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.

the truer the words. the truer the feeling in the reader.

The cult thrives on maintaining strict harmonious beliefs in attitude, opinions and behavior; discord and dissonance are adverted at all costs to maintain a false dogma; truth propels the group deeper into pseudo-beliefs and truth-telling is defamed; the result – cognitive dissonance.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.