“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.”
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“The innocent must not suffer.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
George Orwell
6 quotes“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tr...”