truth

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths.
It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

Those who love truth more than life itself turn away from
the fleeting things of time with all their souls.
To use an expression of Plato--God himself
sets their faces in the right direction.

Simone Weil

Ask yourself:  If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it,
even though it is contrary to what I want or to what I have previously
held to be true?  Will I follow it if it means being laughed at,
if it means personal financial loss, or some kind of hardship?

Eric Liddell

At the core of everything I write is the feeling that the denial of the truth
imprisons us even further in ourselves.  Of course, there's no one "truth." 
The great things, the insights that happen to you,
come to you in some internal way.

Paula Fox

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking
for the truth" and so it goes away.  Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

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Marcus Aurelius

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Richard Bach

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

Edgar A. Guest

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until
we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but those
who keep back truth, or withhold it from others,
from motives of expediency,
are either cowards or criminals.

James Russell Lowell

Horace Mann

People say they love truth, but in reality they want
to believe that which they love is true.

Robert Ringer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack
of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

The TRUTH:  It may not lead you to where you thought
you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better.
When ignored, it will eventually show itself.  The closeness
of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which
you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Confucius

The search for truth is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes
with truth.  Truth is.  It can neither be lost nor sought nor found.  It is there,
wherever you are, being within you.  Yet it can be recognized or unrecognized.

A Course in Miracles

Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us:
we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours
as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves
into monsters and threats to our fellows.

Octavio Paz

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself
I seem to have been only a child playing on the seashore
while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

If one can actually revert to the truth, then a great deal of
one's suffering can be erased--because a great deal of
one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

R.D.Laing

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you;
but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

God offers to every mind  its choice between truth and repose.
Take which you please; you can never have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain:  either you will
reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers
so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth must be loved for its own sake.  Those who speak the truth
because they are in some way compelled to or for their own
advantage, and who are not afraid to tell a lie when it is of no
importance to anyone, is not truthful enough.  My soul naturally
shuns a lie, and hates even the thought of one.  I feel an inward
shame and a sharp remorse if an untruth happens to escape me--
as sometimes it does if the occasion is unexpected,
and I am taken unawares.

Michel de Montaigne