The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Truth
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
Truth never comes where lust and fame and greed of gain resides.
-Swami Vivekananda
