Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Truth
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
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"
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
