When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Quotations
Truth
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
When the force of the desire for Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.
-Adi Shankara "Adi Shankara"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph
