Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Truth is always a delusion.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

… fear false knowledge

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Is not the truth the truth?

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.