To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Truth
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
If you love the truth, you’ll trust it.
-Abraham Maslow
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Truth has always prevailed and always will, because it is the bridge between all
the contradictory powers and emotions of this world. Irrespective of the number
of ups and downs that may come, both in the energies and emotions, truth
always stands still.
-Deep Trivedi
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
