There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
Quotations
Truth
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
-Rabindranath Tagore
When the force of the desire for Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.
-Adi Shankara "Adi Shankara"
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
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
