A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Truth
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-Bill Copeland
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
