Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Truth
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.
-Bob Marley
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
