Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quotations
Truth
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-Bill Copeland
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
-Søren Kierkegaard
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
-Akhenation "Akhenation, 14 century Egyptian king"
