It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
Truth
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"
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
-André Gide
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
