When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Quotations
Truth
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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
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
This deep self-confidence, uncompromising quest for Truth is a lesson for all of us.
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Tyagarupananda"
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
-Mahatma Gandhi
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
