Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Truth
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
