A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Truth
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
