There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Truth
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates "Socrates"
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advancement.
-Orville Wright
