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
Quotations
Truth
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
-Walt Whitman
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
-André Gide
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
