Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Truth
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
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 rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
"Truth" is not an act done at the physical level or an act performed driven by
emotions. Truth is the outcome of that particular action. If someone has used
abusive language for your betterment, then how did he abuse you?... He has
only desired a positive change in you.
-Deep Trivedi
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
-Eli Siegel
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
