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Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

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 special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

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 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.

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 tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

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

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

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

Duality is always secretly unity.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.

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

Endless is the search of truth.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

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.

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.