Truth Quotes

"Information about ourselves leaks out despite our efforts to control it."

"In social life, sincerity is often just another performance technique."

"We project images of ourselves that are often different from our private reality."

"Authenticity becomes nearly impossible when one must present a carefully constructed image in all social situations."

"We must ask not just 'how do things work?' but 'who benefits from them working this way?'"

"The person who questions the institutional setup is often labeled a troublemaker rather than a truth-seeker."

"Truth-telling in a system organized around deception requires courage and often comes at great cost."

"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."

"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own breath."

"Truth is the highest thing that man may keep."

"Truth requires courage to speak."

"The first condition of morality is that man should feel bound by something; bound to a moral authority."

"Society exerts an authority over individuals that we experience as moral obligation."

"Society creates the moral person within the biological individual."

"The conscience of individuals is largely the internalized voice of their society."

"In looking at ourselves, we are looking in a mirror of social perception."

"Social criticism begins with honest self-examination of our own biases."

"The looking glass never shows us an objective self, only a reflected one."

"Those who claim to be unaffected by others' opinions are either liars or isolated."

"The looking glass teaches that criticism often reveals more about the critic."

"When an individual enters the presence of others, they commonly seek to acquire information or to bring into play information about him."

"We are not honest liars; we lie to ourselves constantly about ourselves."

"The search for truth demands intellectual honesty above all else."

"Truth emerges only through systematic questioning and doubt."

"In the end, we are judged not by our intentions but by our consequences."

"Truth is the sole end of the human understanding."

"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual honesty."

"Truth requires the courage to be spoken."

"A man may be intellectually convinced of a theory, yet either dislike it or find it practically inconvenient."

"Facts without interpretation are meaningless; interpretation without facts is fantasy."