The mind which is alert, watchful, which is free of fear, is an innocent mind; and it is only the innocent mind that can understand reality, truth or God.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
—Malcolm X
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because children see parents as authority figures and gods, they think that the way you treat them is the way they deserve to be treated: “What you say about me is what I am” is a literal truth to your child. Consequently, when children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect.
—Stephanie Marston
If art can reveal the truth, art can also lie. An artist can be not only divinely inspired, but diabolically inspired.
—George Bernard Shaw
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
—Frederick Douglass
I can deal with anything, as long as I know it’s the truth. It’s the lies that are hard.
—Jennifer Laurens in Penitence
The path to the truth is found in the spaces between the lies.
—Rain Bojangles
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
—Samuel Butler
Facts are the enemy of truth.
—Miguel de Cervantes
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
—James T. Farrell
Justice is truth in action.
—Benjamin Disraeli
The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
—Woodrow Wilson
The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be known.
—Trisha Leigh in Summer Ruins
It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
—Jerome K. Jerome