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Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind. — Abhijit Naskar

Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. — Abraham Lincoln

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it. — Abhijit Naskar

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. — Bertrand Russell

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity. — Debasish Mridha

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence. — A.E. Samaan

Sincerity is moral truth. — George Henry Lewes

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery — Ben Harper

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act. — Rita Mae Brown

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. — Edmond De Goncourt

...Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being. — Immanuel Kant

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. — Frances Wright

The legal status of something does not alter its moral status, nor does it change our responsibility to the truth. — John Stonestreet

Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end. — Jennifer Harrison

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. — G.E. Moore

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles. — Sissela Bok

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it. — Tadeusz Borowski

Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence. — D. A. Carson

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion — Dennis Prager

The moral?" Hermes asked. "Goodness, you act like it's a fable. It's a true story. Does truth have a moral? — Rick Riordan

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given. — Alasdair MacIntyre

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. — Margaret Heffernan

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. — William Masters

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. — Ximenes Doudan

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Does truth have a moral? — Rick Riordan

Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert. — Luke Rhinehart

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action. — Pope Pius XII

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good. — George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded - a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. — Michael Graves

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. — Spencer Johnson

You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside. — Toba Beta

The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body. — Abhijit Naskar

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one. — Henry David Thoreau

The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil. — Ken Liu

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand. — Mahatma Gandhi

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over. — Veronica Roth

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. — Iris Murdoch

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth. — Louis De Bernieres

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth? — Jeanne Moreau

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. — John Locke

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it. — Anne Bronte

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. — Jean-Luc Godard

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world. — Madame De Stael

The only thing more powerful than words
- is the Author who chooses them. — K.A. Gunn

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut. — Veronica Roth

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets. — Byrd Baggett

Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth. — Jonathan Haidt

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold. — Edgar Lee Masters

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material. — William M. Evarts

If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people. — Stephen McAndrew

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth. — George Lakoff

truth is also about increasing moral minimalism. As you learn more, you should have less need for moral opinions. Or — Venkatesh G. Rao

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy. — George Weigel

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. — Horace Mann