To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Truth
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates "Socrates"
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
-Gautama Buddha
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
