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Truth Quotes by Ayn Rand
- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own…
- A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own…
- I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the…
- Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
- Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
- If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the…
- A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not…
- The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may…
- Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and…
- There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their…
- The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
- People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one…
- Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man…
- That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it…
- Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
- What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that…
- Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done?…
- I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They…
- I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
- It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the…
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- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
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