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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
