Shashi Tharoor Quotes

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

It is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth, and to seek for it as for hidden treasure

I've burned all my bridges for the sake of getting as near as I can to the truth. And after years of searching for the truth, you find that that's all you can bear. The truth and nothing but the truth.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

Principle is a passion for truth.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

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.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Those who criticize, they desire our blood not our pain. But still I must achieve I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the power I was sent forth, for the world for the children. But have mercy, for I've been bleeding a long time now.