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"
Quotations
Truth
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-Anonymous
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
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
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
