Quotations
Truth
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
- J. Krishnamurti
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
- Garrison Keillor
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are ways from light into darkness and from darkness into light. There are ways, also, from the gloom into deeper darkness, and from the dawn into brighter light. The wise man will use the light he has to receive more light. He will constantly advance in the knowledge of truth.
- Gautama Buddha
If you want to understand the teachings of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or any great
philosopher, you will have to learn to differentiate and dissect their sayings
in two parts, one, 'eternal truth' and second, 'the truth relevant at that time'.
Without distinguishing the two, you will invariably end up misunderstanding their
sayings.
- Deep Trivedi
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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