But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
Quotations
Truth
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
Birth is an illusion, so is death. Truth is the element which makes both these
extremes of life meet. The day you recognize it, from then onwards, whenever,
whatever and how much ever you desire...you will get it.
-Deep Trivedi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
-Albert Einstein
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
