It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Truth
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
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"
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
-Albert Einstein
