We want to reach not from untruth to truth, but from truth to higher truth.
-Swami Vivekananda
Quotations
Truth
When the force of the desire for Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.
-Adi Shankara "Adi Shankara"
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
There are ways from light into darkness and from darkness into light. There are ways, also, from the gloom into deeper darkness, and from the dawn into brighter light. The wise man will use the light he has to receive more light. He will constantly advance in the knowledge of truth.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-Garrison Keillor
