It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
Quotations
Truth
Facts are the enemy of truth
-Miguel De Cervantes
"Man of La Mancha"
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates "Socrates"
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
-J. Krishnamurti
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
