Thursday, 6 July 2017

7 July: Tell the Truth Day

Today is Tell the Truth Day. Here are ten quotes about truth.


  1. The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. Emile Zola
  2. It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Mark Twain
  3. It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K Jerome
  4. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
  5. Truth is what works. William James
  6. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find. Terry Pratchett
  7. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill
  8. Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished Titus Livius
  9. Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
  10. The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. Neils Bohr

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