There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Truth
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
Only by devotional service is the Supreme Truth, Krishna, pleased, and by His inconceivable energy. He can reveal Himself to the heart of the pure devotee.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwavad Gita 10.11"
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
The "truth" of every moment is new, different and ever changing. Hence, the
things said thousands of years ago could be true in the context of "time, situation
and circumstances" prevalent at that time, but it is not necessary that they hold
relevance even today.
-Deep Trivedi
There is no evil that cannot be done by the liar, who has transgressed the one law of truthfulness and who is indifferent to the world beyond.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 176"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
