Quotes on Truth

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

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.

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 never damages a cause that is just.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.