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"
Quotations
Truth
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
-Elvis Presley
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-Bill Copeland
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"
We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
