Why We Need Libraries

Truth is a pathless land. - J Krishnamurti

The truth, but not the whole truth. - Baltasar Gracian

The truth needs so little rehearsal. - Barbara Kingsolver

In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus

The well of true wit is truth itself. - George Meredith

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through. - George Eliot

Not truth, but faith it is that keeps the world alive. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Hurt me with the truth but don't comfort me with a lie. - Unknown

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie. - Russian Proverb

If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out. - Rabindranath Tagore

Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet. - Will Ferrell

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. - Eckhart Tolle

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. - Oscar Wilde

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. - Leo Tolstoy

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. - Mahatma Gandhi

We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth. - Seneca

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. - Robert McKee

Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent. - William Blake

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past. - Rick Pitino

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views. - Sharon Begley

I almost sent you a real birthday card but thankfully my internet connection came back. - Unknown

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. - Sid Caesar

Another good thing about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said. - Unknown

A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots. - Mark Twain

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive. - Ravi Zacharias

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. - Konrad Lorenz

Better to be on a seemingly endless journey seeking truth, than to be comfortable and stagnant with deception. - Starr De Luna

The Internet has turned what used to be a controlled, one-way message into a real-time dialogue with millions. - Danielle Sacks

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Winston Churchill

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. - Arthur Balfour

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media. But the Internet is becoming the umbrella. - Larry Weber

The problem with the internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate? - Umberto Eco

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell. - Malcolm Muggeridge