Top 75 Principles Of Truth Quotes
#1. Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.
Ellen G. White
#2. The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
Blaise Pascal
#3. In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
Carl Linnaeus
#4. What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth.
Meher Baba
#5. I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization.
Sunday Adelaja
#6. The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored, depend upon its adherence to the principles of truth and righteousness.
Jon Lord
#7. To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all my energies toward the establishment of a society that would be based on its principles of truth and peace.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
#8. If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
#9. There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice
Chris Hedges
#10. True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. When you rely on the principles of truth, they take you far.
Sunday Adelaja
#12. When the economy of a country is based fundamentally on the principles of truth and honesty, that nation experiences economic stability.
Sunday Adelaja
#13. I hope my greatest contribution will be to try to extract principles of truth that will cause us to live our lives in a more effective way and to advance Jesus' purpose in the world.
Erwin McManus
#14. If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
Black Elk
#16. Many people would fight against the idea that they are corrupt. While in the real sense, they are corrupt because they don't live by the principles of honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
#17. Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.
James Davison Hunter
#18. I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.
Spencer W. Kimball
#19. We should be people of principles and should fight for these principles
Sunday Adelaja
#20. If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth
any man of integrity.
Ayn Rand
#21. It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles
Sunday Adelaja
#22. Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement ...
Karl Popper
#23. In order to have success it is necessary to know certain principles and rules
Sunday Adelaja
#24. To inspire is to teach life principles in the spirit of Love.
Delma Pryce
#25. The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.
Louis Mackey
#26. Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.
Matthew Arnold
#27. Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.
R.A. Salvatore
#28. The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.
Paul Feyerabend
#29. Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.
Sissela Bok
#30. In the small seeds of plants lie hidden both bulk and branches, bud and fruit. In a few principles lie hidden all comfortable conclusions of holy truth. All these glorious fireworks of zeal and holiness in the saints had their beginning from a few sparks.
Richard Sibbes
#31. The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?
George Berkeley
#32. The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
Jeffrey Sachs
#33. It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
E.W. Jackson
#34. Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
Alan W. Watts
#35. If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.
Tiffany Madison
#36. The stops point out, with truth, the time of pause
A sentence doth require at ev'ry clause.
t ev'ry comma, stop while one you count;
At semicolon, two is the amount;
A colon doth require the time of three;
The period four, as learned men agree.
Cecil B. Hartley
#37. The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
Walter Lippmann
#38. Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man.
Joseph Fort Newton
#39. An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.
Thomas Paine
#40. If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.
Marlo Morgan
#41. I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed by the pure principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#42. The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.
Beck
#44. As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.
Louis Pasteur
#45. If [Christian leaders] do not teach Christian principles to all followers of Christ, we are not equipping them with God's truth that will
overcome worldly influence.
Billy Graham
#46. A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success.
Richie Norton
#47. Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth ... All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.
Spencer W. Kimball
#48. After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.
John Biddle
#49. All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba
#50. Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
#51. Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.
Nancy Pearcey
#52. In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.
Edward Forbes
#53. Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.
Gautama Buddha
#54. If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
Jeff Cooper
#55. "Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what difficulties faced us.
Jimmy Carter
#56. It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.
James Sharp
#57. One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.
Wesley Clark
#58. Within the holy circle of the stage, geometrical principles are used to organize physical energy so that the beauty of the human form reveals a web of drama and truth---that is the essence of dance as I have come to know it.
Gelsey Kirkland
#59. Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
Eve Ensler
#60. In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Albert Einstein
#62. Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.
Faraaz Kazi
#63. If you don't have the faith in principles and you don't believe in the absolutism of the truth then you won't be able achieve anything in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#64. There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.
Ayn Rand
#65. Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#66. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Horace Greeley
#67. You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the power of your spirit, your inner core, your values and principles on which your life is based
Sunday Adelaja
#68. For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.
Daniel Ellsberg
#69. I have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human
Mary Shelley
#70. One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#71. We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.
C. G. Jung
#72. Your dedication to kingdom and His principles determines the level of your prosperity
Sunday Adelaja
#73. The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
Ronald Fisher
#74. God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which we call 'Cosmic Laws' or 'Natural Laws' or 'Universal Laws'.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#75. When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
Stephen Covey
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