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What governs men is the fear of truth. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. -- Emile M. Cioran
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. -- Ron Silver
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. -- Xun Zi
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. -- Dorothy Thompson
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. -- Charles D. Broad
The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear. -- Liberty Ross
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. -- Oprah Winfrey
Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear. -- Monica Johnson
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution. -- Rick Perlstein
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. -- James Broughton
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. -- Thomas Jefferson
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. -- Umberto Eco
That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. -- Dick Thornburgh
The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths. -- Chris Crutcher
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! -- Anthony de Mello
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins. -- Ayelet Waldman
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety. -- Joseph Prince
NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. -- Juan Williams
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. -- Juan Williams
Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it. -- Steve Maraboli
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth -- Pema Chodron
No truth could ever fear me. -- George Harrison
The greatest enemy to fear is truth. -- Steve Maraboli
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth. -- Tacitus
Fear is a place where you just tell the truth -- Clive Barker
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Political correctness is euphemism for "fear to speak truth to authority -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear, -- Glenn Beck
Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth. -- Mike Carey
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome. -- Albert Schweitzer
Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads. -- Olivia Manning
FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH -- Jim Palmer
We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit. -- Berl Katznelson
You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear enslaves us, Truth sets us free and the only Truth is the Oneness. -- Human Angels
The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad. -- Herbert Spencer
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean. -- Jacqueline Carey
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it. -- Robert Kennedy
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth. -- Dorothy Thompson
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When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen. -- Lee Boyd Malvo
Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith. -- Russell M. Nelson
Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth. -- Suzy Kassem
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth -- Richard Gerber
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! -- Swami Vivekananda
The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything. -- Julien Smith
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves! -- Constantin Stanislavski
The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything. -- Julien Smith
Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all. -- Ricky Gervais
Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think. -- Paloma Faith
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man. -- Edward R. Murrow
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. -- John Ruskin
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. -- Thomas Jefferson
Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. -- Pema Chodron
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie. -- Laurieann Gibson
Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth. -- Amit Kalantri
On the road to truth, only those who do not know what tiredness and fear means reach the truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. -- Jonathan Messinger
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. -- Agnes Moorehead
Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves. -- Andrew Sullivan
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. -- Walter Savage Landor
Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do. -- Rachel Held Evans
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When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life. -- Ali Vincent
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. -- Samuel Butler
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself. -- Marya Mannes
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them... -- Benjamin Rush
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear. -- Thomas Merton
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. -- Aleister Crowley
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties. -- Jack Kornfield
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit -- Marianne Williamson
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate. -- John Ralston Saul
There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right. -- Ray Dalio
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. -- William James
The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us. -- Arthur Eddington
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. -- Rick Yancey
The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING! -- Susan Jeffers
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward -- Gay Hendricks
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth. -- Miguel de Cervantes
None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death. -- Swami Vivekananda
And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us. -- Martin Luther
I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings. -- Bill Moyers
Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear. -- Solange nicole
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. -- Margaret Guenther
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. -- Georgie Anne Geyer
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. -- Thomas Jefferson
If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth. -- Donny Deutsch
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth. -- Joan D. Chittister
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth. -- Rich Mullins
The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment. -- Chris Colfer
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated. -- Epictetus
The thing is that I had no fear; no anxiety. I had this peace come over me and I just knew that word from the Lord was truth. -- Shirley Boone
I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record. -- Andrew Ripp
Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom. -- Laurence Overmire
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath. -- Khalil Gibran
Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more! -- Will Carleton
At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth. -- May Sarton
Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear. -- Ernest Holmes
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse. -- Ron Suskind
I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13) -- Yumi Tamura
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. -- Samuel Johnson
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences. -- Mariella Frostrup

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