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
Quotations
Truth
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.
-Bob Marley
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
-J. Krishnamurti
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
