“I say that justice is truth in action.”
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“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.”
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
“When in doubt tell the truth.”
“Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”
“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.”
“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.”
“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
“Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”
“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.”
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.”
“The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.”
“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”
“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.”
“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”
“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”