Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Truth
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
-Albert Einstein
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
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
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
-Mark Twain
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
