Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Madame de Stael

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

James Thurber

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Emily Dickinson

Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

Ellis Peters

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Ellis Peters

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Edward Tufte

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Edward Burnett Tylor

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Edward de Bono

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

Edward Albee

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Edward Albee

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Edith Hamilton

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

John Keats

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Hermann Hesse

The truth is lived, not taught....

Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hermann Hesse

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.

Henry Van Dyke

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.