Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Truth
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
-Elvis Presley
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
-Swami Vivekananda
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
