I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
Quotations
Truth
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
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"
If you want to understand the teachings of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or any great
philosopher, you will have to learn to differentiate and dissect their sayings
in two parts, one, 'eternal truth' and second, 'the truth relevant at that time'.
Without distinguishing the two, you will invariably end up misunderstanding their
sayings.
-Deep Trivedi
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
-A Spiritual Leader "S. N. Goenka"
