To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Truth
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-Bill Copeland
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
