#rut

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #friends #honor #love #our

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#adorned #against #before #better #endowments

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#none #photographs #them #truth

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#funny #get #go #had #honest

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#enthusiasm #enthusiasts #few #moves #speak

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#convenient #correct #easy #may #politically

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. ↗

— George Bancroft

#characters #depend #enough #exciting #lives

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#citizens #ever #government #scrutinize #should