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Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed, the opportunity that is offered. How we make use of this opportunity depends upon the degree of our participation, how much we are prepared to give ourselves to the work that needs to be done, to the freedom that needs to be lived.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

One truth, many paths.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.

Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.