Margaret Heffernan Quotes

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

It is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth, and to seek for it as for hidden treasure

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.