But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
Quotations
Truth
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
-Eli Siegel
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
If you want to understand the teachings of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or any great
philosopher, you will have to learn to differentiate and dissect their sayings
in two parts, one, 'eternal truth' and second, 'the truth relevant at that time'.
Without distinguishing the two, you will invariably end up misunderstanding their
sayings.
-Deep Trivedi
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
-Swami Vivekananda
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
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
