All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Truth
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
-Akhenation "Akhenation, 14 century Egyptian king"
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-Bill Copeland
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph
