I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
Quotations
Truth
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
