The Worst Disease...Bono

“The worst disease in the world today is corruption. And there is a cure: transparency.”


—Bono

Stick With Truth And Love...George Orwell

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”

—George Orwell

The Most Unpleasant Truth...Theodore Roosevelt

“In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.”

—Theodore Roosevelt 

The Truth About The Truth

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

—Gloria Steinem

So You Really Want To Help People?...Thomas Sowell

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

—Thomas Sowell

Let Truth Loose...Augustine

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

—Augustine of Hippo

May Our Actions Be Based On Truth...Kami Garcia

“We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.” 

― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

Live Your Truth...Steve Maraboli

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

--Steve Maraboli, "Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience"

There Is Beauty In Truth...Jose Harris

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.

José N. Harris

Love and Respect

To get it, you must also give it...truth, love, respect, etc.

Find Your Hope In Unchanging Truisms

Hold on to the eternal and unchanging: love, truth, faith, joy, kindness and goodness.

Tell TheTruth!

One of the things we learn very early is the truth matters. As we go through life, we learn a lot of things about people and values. But the thing that does not change over time is our expectations regarding the truth. We respect people who tell the truth even if we do not like them.

--Nona O.

Trust Is A Gift...@vnona

In any relationship, trust is a priceless gift. Don't squander it.

--Nona O.

Looking At History Through Colored Lens...James Feinmore Cooper

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

--James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

How To Facilitate Reconciliation...Timothy B. Tyson

“If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.”
 
--Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

 

Respect For The Truth...U. Thant

”Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”

--U. Thant

If You Look For Truth...C.S. Lewis

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

― C.S. Lewis

Truth...Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

--Mahatma Gandhi

Time Will Tell...Nona

Time will tell if we really believe the philosophies that we preach to others.  Will we hold ourselves accountable to the standards that we have called others to live by? Time will tell...
 
--Nona

The Way To Right Wrongs...Ida B. Wells Barnett

 The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

 --Ida B. Wells Barnett