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
"A Little Book in C Major"
Quotations
Truth
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.
-Bob Marley
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
-A Spiritual Leader "S. N. Goenka"
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
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 "Gautama Buddha"
