Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Truth
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
-Akhenation "Akhenation, 14 century Egyptian king"
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
-Rabindranath Tagore
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates "Socrates"
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
