Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

There is no god higher than truth.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

I will persist until I succeed. Always I will take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult…I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Truth can wait; he's used to it.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants. -Mark Twain

The object of the superior man is truth.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Love truth but pardon error.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Love truth, but pardon error.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.