A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Truth
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
-André Gide
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
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 is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
