Quotes About Truth And Morals

#1. We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

Nicolas Chamfort

#2. Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Patti Smith

#4. In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Ernest Renan

#5. The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

#6. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Ayn Rand

#7. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Aesop

#8. You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do ...

Steven J. Carroll

#9. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Albert Schweitzer

#10. Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Ayn Rand

#12. Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

Perry Anderson

#13. To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

Ayn Rand

#14. I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners.
"Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

Mark Twain

#17. Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else.

Chuck Klosterman

#18. Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don't have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

Cassandra Clare

#19. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

Ayn Rand

#20. Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

Stefan Molyneux

#22. To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Ayn Rand

#23. The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

Michael Eric Dyson

#24. I want to stand on the foundation of ethics and morals when the world around me would assault that foundation with all of its collective might, and in the standing I want to stand on the truth that that foundation will stand long after everything that has assailed it has itself has ceased to stand.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Ayn Rand

#26. Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can't speak for itself, it's not truth.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

#28. The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda ... are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#29. The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#30. The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

Edgar Allan Poe

#31. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#32. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#33. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.

Byrd Baggett

#34. Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Ezra Taft Benson