Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Truth
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
If you want to understand the teachings of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or any great
philosopher, you will have to learn to differentiate and dissect their sayings
in two parts, one, 'eternal truth' and second, 'the truth relevant at that time'.
Without distinguishing the two, you will invariably end up misunderstanding their
sayings.
-Deep Trivedi
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
-Dejan Stojanović
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
