A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Truth
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
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"
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
-Gautama Buddha
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"
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
-Rabindranath Tagore
