Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

Mahatma Gandhi

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Mahatma Gandhi

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no god higher than truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

Mahatma Gandhi

There's no God higher than truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Mahatma Gandhi

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

Norman O. Brown

Truth is error burned up.

Orson Welles

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Oliver Tambo

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.