A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Truth
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
Facts are the enemy of truth
-Miguel De Cervantes
"Man of La Mancha"
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
