Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotations
Truth
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
-Swami Vivekananda
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
-Elvis Presley
