Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
-Albert Einstein
Quotations
Truth
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
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"
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
-Søren Kierkegaard
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
