It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Truth
Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
-Gautama Buddha
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
-Mark Twain
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
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
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
