Why We Need Libraries

The truth needs so little rehearsal. - Barbara Kingsolver

Tell all the Truth but tell is slant. - Emily Dickinson

The expression of truth is simplicity. - Seneca

Ya wanna known the truth? I voted for Reegan. - Archie Bunker

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

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out. - Novalis

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay as long as truth. - Will Rogers

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. - William Faulkner

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. - David Halberstam

Nothing better than listening to a lie when you already know the truth. - Unknown

In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to being it to light. - George Washington

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. - Sonia Sanchez

In our world, more often the truth is 'Money talks and integrity walks.' - Bill Welker

Humour is based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joe-k about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. - Laurence J Peter

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. - Aldous Huxley

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

My twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth. - Donald Trump

A good story is at its best when the line between truth and fiction remains ambiguous. - Leicester Hemingway

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. - Madeleine L'Engle

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

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. - C S Lewis

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. - Katherine Anne Porter

The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. - Alan Watts

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

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

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up. - Ron Santo

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. - Rodney Dangerfield

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes. - Margaret Mahy

As we grow up we think we lose our friends. But the truth is that we don't lose friends, we just learn who the real ones are. - Unknown

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F Kennedy