CURATED COLLECTION

Telling the Truth

Honesty is one of the most demanding disciplines — and one of the most underrated forms of courage.

28 quotes found

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Error is not a crime; the crime is to persist in error after it has been shown.

—Michael ServetusTheologian & Physician

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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To resist is to remember.

—Haunani-Kay TraskScholar, Poet & Activist

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

—SocratesPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

—Florence NightingaleReformer

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Journalism's first duty is to doubt, to question, to seek beyond the surface.

—Tomás Eloy MartínezJournalist & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

—Malala YousafzaiActivist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

—James BaldwinNovelist, Essayist & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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The truth is a burning coal that cannot be hidden.

—Julia de BurgosPoet & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Caribbean

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I have always done my best to follow the dictates of truth.

—Benvenuto CelliniSculptor, Writer & Artist

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Our only task: to look life in the eye.

—Gyula IllyésPoet & Writer

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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Have the courage to use your own understanding.

—Immanuel KantPhilosopher

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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Writing is to dare to tell what others prefer not to hear.

—Assia DjebarNovelist & Historian

Late Modern ERA • North Africa

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If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling.

—Al-MutanabbiPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

—Immanuel KantPhilosopher

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

—Boris PasternakPoet, Novelist & Doctor

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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Who fears for the truth will not speak it.

—Karel Havlíček BorovskýJournalist, Poet & Satirist

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what has been proved.

—Galileo GalileiAstronomer, Physicist & Mathematician

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Let the critics speak, their words are but dust against truth's sun.

—Mihri HatunPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

—Bertrand RussellPhilosopher, Mathematician & Intellectual

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

—Galileo GalileiAstronomer, Physicist & Mathematician

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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