Telling The Truth Revolutionary Quotes & Sayings

I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a question of what categories we want to spend more on and what categories we want feel that we are spending too much on and we want to cut down. — Dan Ariely

I seek to bring forth what you almost already know. — Aristotle.

There was once upon a time a census officer who had to record the names of all householders in a certain Welsh village. The first that he questioned was called William Williams; so were the second, third, fourth.... At last he said to himself: 'This is tedious; evidently they are all called William Williams. I shall put them down so and take a holiday'. But he was wrong; there was just one whose name was John Jones. This shows that we may go astray if we trust too implicitly to induction by simple enumeration. — Bertrand Russell

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. — Michael Poeltl

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act — Aldous Huxley

That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God. These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him. — Abdu'l- Baha

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell — Amie Kaufman

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. — M. Scott Peck

In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest. At a time when mass marketing of food produces a product so disgusting that it has to be wrapped in distracting gimmicks to be sold, the mere fact of paying attention to what you eat and drink and telling the truth about taste is a revolutionary act. — Lynn Hoffman

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. — Stanley Baldwin

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression "trick of the light" applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination" . — Erin Morgenstern

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth. — Howard Zinn

The world of things entered your infant mind
To populate that crystal cabinet.
Within its walls the strangest partners met,
And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind.
For, once within, corporeal fact could find
A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt
Built there your little microcosm - which yet
Had hugest tasks to its small self assigned.
Dead men can live there, and converse with stars:
Equator speaks with pole, and night with day;
Spirit dissolves the world's material bars -
A million isolations burn away.
The Universe can live and work and plan,
At last made God within the mind of man. — Julian Huxley

Telling the truth is always revolutionary — Antonio Gramsci

Perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. — David Nicholls

I always have someplace else I'd rather be, even if I don't know where that is, yet. — Ann Aguirre

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. — George Orwell