Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Garry Kasparov

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

George Crabbe

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

Livy

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Lucy Stone

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

Lucy Stone

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

Louis Aragon

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Lord Byron

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

Lord Chesterfield

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Lord Chesterfield

Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

Lord Chesterfield

I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.

Lord Chesterfield

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

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

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.