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
Quotations
Truth
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
-Akhenation "Akhenation, 14 century Egyptian king"
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-Bill Copeland
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
