The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Truth
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
-André Gide
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
-J. Krishnamurti
There is no evil that cannot be done by the liar, who has transgressed the one law of truthfulness and who is indifferent to the world beyond.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 176"
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
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
