Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Quotations
Truth
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"
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
-Eli Siegel
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
There is no evil that cannot be done by the liar, who has transgressed the one law of truthfulness and who is indifferent to the world beyond.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 176"
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
If you want to understand the teachings of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or any great
philosopher, you will have to learn to differentiate and dissect their sayings
in two parts, one, 'eternal truth' and second, 'the truth relevant at that time'.
Without distinguishing the two, you will invariably end up misunderstanding their
sayings.
-Deep Trivedi
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
-Dejan Stojanović
