It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Truth
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
-Walt Whitman
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
This deep self-confidence, uncompromising quest for Truth is a lesson for all of us.
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Tyagarupananda"
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
