Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Truth
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Birth is an illusion, so is death. Truth is the element which makes both these
extremes of life meet. The day you recognize it, from then onwards, whenever,
whatever and how much ever you desire...you will get it.
-Deep Trivedi
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
Truth never comes where lust and fame and greed of gain resides.
-Swami Vivekananda
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
-J. Krishnamurti
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advancement.
-Orville Wright
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
