Truth Quotes

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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
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… — 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
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt. — Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it. — Joseph Murphy
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth. — Benjamin Franklin
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but… — Huineng
Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that… — Michel de Montaigne
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than… — Robert E. Lee
A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants… — John Ruskin
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to… — Mahatma Gandhi
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and… — Swami Vivekananda
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt… — Pope Pius XI
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is… — Mahatma Gandhi
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. — Neville Cardus
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail… — Max Lerner
I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We… — Vladimir Putin
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more,… — Shakti Gawain
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood… — Parker J. Palmer
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift… — Natalia Ginzburg

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