Quotes about truth
truth honesty government
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. Lyndon B. Johnson
truth-is bigs concepts
Truth is a big concept. Lukas Foss
truth years birth-place
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified. Lucy Stone
truth use sides
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
truth errors may
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. Louis Aragon
truth names fire
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
truth soul secret
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
truth humble good-man
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 lying men
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.
truth views long
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.
truth character men
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.
truth believe men
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
truth successful victory
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.
truth men truth-is
Truth is superior to man s wisdom.
truth commitment consistency
My commitment is to truth not consistency.
truth giving-up two
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
truth humanity destruction
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
truth ideas pursuit
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.
truth promise debt
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.
truth cutting roots
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
truth abstract prove
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
truth hammers use
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.
truth uniforms convinced
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth
truth hypocrite names
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
truth motherhood substance
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
truth-is found
The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.
truth mean violence
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
truth evolution there-is-no-god
There is no god higher than truth.
truth soldier knows
When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
truth religion higher
There's no God higher than truth.
truth heart hopeful
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
truth freedom law
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
truth honesty ignorance
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.