It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph
Quotations
Truth
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
-Akhenation "Akhenation, 14 century Egyptian king"
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
