Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.
Bertrand Wilbertforce
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zmmermann
Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.
William G. Simms
It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
Speak the truth by all means; be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrongdoing; but be human, and loving, and gentle, and brotherly, the while.
W N Punshon
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Bertrand Russell 1872
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth ... The trite subjects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein 1879
The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.
Blaise Pascal 1623
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.
Henry Alford
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.
Brian Wilson Aldiss