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"
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.
There are ways from light into darkness and from darkness into light. There are ways, also, from the gloom into deeper darkness, and from the dawn into brighter light. The wise man will use the light he has to receive more light. He will constantly advance in the knowledge of truth.
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
-J. Krishnamurti
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
This deep self-confidence, uncompromising quest for Truth is a lesson for all of us.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill