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
Quotations
Truth
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
