Truth
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Browse our collection of Truth Sayings & Quotes from books from famous people around the world.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
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.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.
The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.