Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

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

James Joyce

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

James Joyce

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Russell Lowell

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

James Russell Lowell

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

James Russell Lowell

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

James Russell Lowell

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

James Russell Lowell

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

James Rebhorn

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

Laurence Sterne

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Laurence Sterne

So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.

Laurence Sterne

Endless is the search of truth.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

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.

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.

M. Scott Peck

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

Luther Burbank

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

John Charles Polanyi

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

John Arbuthnot

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

John Arbuthnot

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.