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Live the truth instead of professing it. -Elbert Hubbard

I vow to seek the truth, to live by the truth, and to confront the truth wherever I find it. -Mohandas Gandhi

It does not require many words to speak the truth. -Chief Joseph

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. -Lillian Hellman

Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is--Let there be truth between us two forever more. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience. -John Dewey

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. -Henry David Thoreau

Never pretend to be someone you're not. And whatever you do, don't be a mystery to people. -Eunice Azzani

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. -Samuel Butler

Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from the holy books and wise people. Everything--even mountains, rivers, plants, and trees--should be your teacher. -Morihei Ueshiba

These words are mine and they are true. -Chief Meninock

Authenticity is contagious. -Paul Wieand

We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life. -H. Emilie Cady

At first people found a few diamonds in the yellow clay, and they were delighted with their good fortune, even while they supposed that this was to be the full extent of their find. Then, upon digging deeper, they came upon the blue clay, and, to their amazement, they then found as many precious stones in a day as they had previously found in a year, and what had formerly seemed like wealth faded into insignificance beside the new riches. In your exploration of... Truth, see to it that you do not rest satisfied in the yellow clay of a few spiritual discoveries, but press on to the rich blue clay underneath. - Emmet Fox

Do not tell lies about the past. -Leonardo da Vinci

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. -Robert Alden

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. -Nicholas Evans

...men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. -Aristotle

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections), nothing that satisfies quiet reflection, except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and to get rid of cant and shams of all sorts. -Thomas H. Huxley

...one must not give in to the doer of an impious action, no matter who he may be. -Euthyphro

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. -Bishop Berkeley

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. -John F. Kennedy

A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath. -William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

We accept many notions because they seem to be the logical answers to our questions. But have we asked the right questions? -Harold L. Klawans, MD

 

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