Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

Mahatma Gandhi

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Mahatma Gandhi

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

Mahatma Gandhi

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.

Mahatma Gandhi

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

Mahatma Gandhi

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

George Armstrong Custer

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

James Madison

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

John Donne

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

John O'Donohue

I am sure of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections.

John Milton

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

John Calvin

All truth is God's truth.

John Astin

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

Johan Huizinga

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Johan Huizinga

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Johan Huizinga

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

Joan of Arc

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.