I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Truth
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts are the enemy of truth
-Miguel De Cervantes
"Man of La Mancha"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
