Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Truth
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
