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The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. -- Dalai Lama
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there. -- Edward de Bono
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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are. -- Stephen Covey
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid. -- Ellis Peters
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. -- Isaac Asimov
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. -- Thomas Huxley
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth. -- Robert Kocharian
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. -- Julian Barnes
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. -- Robert Hewison
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. -- Simone Weil
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values. -- Harold Prince
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences. -- Dan Ariely
All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths. -- Gary Hamel
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. -- Graham Greene
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. -- Howard Dean
Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful parents. He came to respect deeply and value highly his pioneer heritage. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. -- John Updike
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have. -- Susan Powter
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? -- Duane Michals
I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level. -- Kristin Gore
Love has no value in the absence of truth. -- C.J. Anderson
Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not. -- Catherine Wilson
She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart. -- Lloyd Alexander
In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom. -- F. Sionil Jose
Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness. -- Alasdair MacIntyre
Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth. -- Mike Colter
A knowledge of truth is of little value unless lived in full measure. -- Richard G. Scott
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself. -- Cornel West
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear. -- Pat Summitt
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process. -- Rowan Williams
All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it. -- Thornton T. Munger
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. -- Ann Voskamp
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. -- Sorin Cerin
not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. -- John Dryden
Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it. -- Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. -- Oscar Wilde
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object. -- Albert Camus
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. -- Criss Jami
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them -- George Bernard Shaw
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. -- Abigail Adams
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. -- June Jordan
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards. -- R. A. Salvatore
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
How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. -- Marcus Aurelius
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth. -- Blaise Pascal
Remember, having faith means recognizing the value of what you are here to contribute to the world and allowing your actions to be grounded in that truth. -- Marie Forleo
Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting. -- Leslie Leyland Fields
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth. -- Khalil Gibran
You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things. -- Ellen G. White

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