There is no evil that cannot be done by the liar, who has transgressed the one law of truthfulness and who is indifferent to the world beyond.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 176"
Quotations
Truth
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 176"
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
