Joseph P. Bradley

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain 43

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde 36

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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha 36

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer 29

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The object of the superior man is truth.

Confucius 26

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C. S. Lewis 29

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No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare 36

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot 34

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Martin Luther King, Jr. 36

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson 26