Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

Mason Cooley

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Mason Cooley

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

Mason Cooley

If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.

Mason Cooley

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

Mason Cooley

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

Mencius

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Michel Foucault

Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

Marie Corelli

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

Marie Corelli

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

Marie Curie

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Many a truth is the result of an error.

Teri Garr

No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty.

Theodore Parker

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Theodore Parker

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Malcolm X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it..

Malcolm X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

Malcolm X

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Malcolm X

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Mahatma Gandhi

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

Mahatma Gandhi

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Mahatma Gandhi

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

Mahatma Gandhi

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Mahatma Gandhi

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.