Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If you look for truth, you have to be courageous.

Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

truth is a letter from courage!

Have the courage to face the truth

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

And when you say the truth you get stronger.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.