Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Truth
Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
Facts are the enemy of truth
-Miguel De Cervantes
"Man of La Mancha"
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
-J. Krishnamurti
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"
