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Quotes about Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

  • God is Truth, Truth is God.
  • God alone knows absolute Truth.
  • A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
  • Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
  • I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of theses.
  • There is no god higher than truth.
  • Truth is one, paths are many.
  • There's no God higher than truth.
  • In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
  • I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.
  • The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
  • Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
  • Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
  • If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.
  • Without living Truth, God is nowhere.
  • Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
  • A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.
  • Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
  • The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
  • God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
  • A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
  • A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
  • The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.
  • Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
  • Truth is superior to man's wisdom.