Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
Quotations
Truth
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advancement.
-Orville Wright
To seek is to deny the truth that is right in front of you.
-J. Krishnamurti
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
-Dejan Stojanović
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
