The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Truth
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-Anonymous
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-Bill Copeland
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
