If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advancement.
-Orville Wright
Quotations
Truth
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.
-Bob Marley
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates "Socrates"
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"
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Truth never comes where lust and fame and greed of gain resides.
-Swami Vivekananda
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"
