To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Truth
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
To seek is to deny the truth that is right in front of you.
-J. Krishnamurti
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
"Truth" is not an act done at the physical level or an act performed driven by
emotions. Truth is the outcome of that particular action. If someone has used
abusive language for your betterment, then how did he abuse you?... He has
only desired a positive change in you.
-Deep Trivedi
If you love the truth, you’ll trust it.
-Abraham Maslow
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
