Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dan Jenkins

All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

Eric Hoffer

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

Enid Bagnold

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

James F. Cooper

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Friedrich Schiller

Truth lives on in the midst of deception....

George Gissing

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

Jon Foreman

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.

Jon Foreman

Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.

Luigi Pirandello

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Luc de Clapiers

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Luc de Clapiers

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Louis Pasteur

Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.

John Bradshaw

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.