#truth

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. ↗

— Alan Moore

#pretense #truthfulness #honesty

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#silence #truth #honesty

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#lies #serious #trust #truth #honesty

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#honesty

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#honesty #truth #honesty

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#truth #honesty

The most common form of despair is not being who you are. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#truth #despair

...oppression is as American as apple pie... ↗

— Audre Lorde

#oppression

In the course of my intellectual life I experienced very acutely the problem of whether it isn't actually presumptuous to say that we can know the truth - in the face of all our limitations. I also asked myself to what extent it might not be better to suppress this category. In pursuing this question, however, I was able to observe and also to grasp that relinquishing truth doesn't solve anything but, on the contrary, leads to the tyranny of caprice. In that case, the only thing that can remain is really what we decide on and can replace at will. Man is degraded if he can't know truth, if everything, in the final analysis, is just the product of an individual or collective decision. In this way it became clear to me how important it is that we don't lose the concept of truth, in spite of the menaces and perils that it doubtless carries with it. It has to remain as a central category. As a demand on us that doesn't give us rights but requires, on the contrary, our humility and our obedience and can lead us to the common path. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#life

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#truth #marketing