The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Truth
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
"Truth" is not an act done at the physical level or an act performed driven by
emotions. Truth is the outcome of that particular action. If someone has used
abusive language for your betterment, then how did he abuse you?... He has
only desired a positive change in you.
-Deep Trivedi
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
Through true devotional worship, they are attuned to Truth; at the True Door, they are found to be true. Blessed is their coming into being; they redeem all their ancestors.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
