Effort Quote by Karl Popper

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

— Christiaan Huygens

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

— Sylvia Plath

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer…

— Thomas Jefferson

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

— Jack Kornfield

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through…

— Max Planck

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride…

— Shunryu Suzuki

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount…

— Tony Buzan

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it,…

— Samuel Smiles

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.

— Peace Pilgrim

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld