Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [521-540] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.~ Thomas Paine Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.~ Thomas Paine These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.~ Thomas Paine Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.~ Thomas Paine Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.~ Thomas Paine He who dares not offend cannot be honest.~ Thomas Paine The most formidable weapons against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.~ Thomas Paine Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.~ Thomas Paine The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.~ Michael Parenti Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.~ Blaise Pascal It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.~ Blaise Pascal All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.~ Blaise Pascal The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.~ Blaise Pascal For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.~ St. Paul He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.~ Charles Peguy Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self esteem. If you need encouragement, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.~ Fritz Perls Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.~ Laurence J. Peter History has taught us time and again that political power always raises its angry fist when timeless principles are lost. We know that without the scale of "self-evident truths" grounded in the "laws of nature and nature's God," every culture eventually finds itself subject to the rule of the gang or the tyranny of the individual. Recognizing this, scholars of all ages have confidently given their hearts and minds to the words, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.~ Everett Piper Honesty demands that we boldly pursue ideas tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and confirmed by revelation. We will only find truth when we place our confidence in it and not in ourselves. We will only learn when we love truth enough to measure all ideas with a measuring rod outside of those things being measured and are willing to discard those ideas we find to be "intolerable," inferior, and useless.~ Everett Piper Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.~ Plato Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print