Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Truth
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
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"
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Love truth, but pardon error.
-Voltaire
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates "Socrates"
