But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
Quotations
Truth
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
-Rabindranath Tagore
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
