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Truth Quotes by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand says that even a small white lie can feel like the darkest destruction. She notes that truth can be so sharp it might kill those who hear it, so people often avoid it. She also believes that trusting your own mind and being honest keeps you steady, even when others resist reason.

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Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted

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Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

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The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

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“Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth." Dagny Taggart”

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If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

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I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

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Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

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Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live…

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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“The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that…

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I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least…

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“Your mind is your only judge of truth--and if others dissent your verdict, reality is the final court of appeal. John Galt”

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“There are no objective facts,” he had said. “Every report on facts is only somebody’s opinion. It is, therefore, useless to write…

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Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true…

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That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means…

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A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;…

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“For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we…

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There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on…

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“But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the…

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If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty…

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Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its…

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“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without…

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“Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them.…

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“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind…

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“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,…

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“Why would you want it, if it’s not the truth?” he asked. “What for?” “Now you see, that’s the cruelty of conscientious…

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I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth…

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“Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being…

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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of…

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“I'm not afraid anymore. But I know that the terror exists. I know the kind of terror it is. You can't conceive…

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“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends…

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It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

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“An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He”

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“I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.…

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“Moments later, when she saw the look of control returning to his face, she said, "Don't ever get angry at a man…

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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of…

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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act…

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.