We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. – Mahatma Gandhi
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. – Mahatma Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just. – Mahatma Gandhi
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. – Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. – Mahatma Gandhi
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil Gibran
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. – William Shenstone
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. – Khalil Gibran
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Khalil Gibran
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The object of the superior man is truth. – Confucius
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder. – Lao Tzu
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. – Aristotle
