Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. (Young India 1924-1926)

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"Never offend an enemy in a small way."

"Truth is in hands of noble souls and noble souls and nobel souls are verily Divine."

"The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man."

"The brother is a burden to the Christian, precisely because he is a Christian. For the pagan the other person never becomes a burden at all. He simply sidesteps every burden that others may impose upon him."

"The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows."

"It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie."

"In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility."

"There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world."

"My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified."

"Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer."

"Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day."