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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Disillusionment is not truth.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

Do not try to be what you are not, be what you are. The Universe has a built in truth recognizer, what ever is false about you, it will expose to light, either through you or others, pay attention.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

Duality is always secretly unity.

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Endless is the search of truth.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds

Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.