Why We Need Libraries

Too much truth is uncouth. - Franklin P. Adams

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The truth hurts, but silence kills. - Mark Twain

Truth is treason in the empire of lies. - Ron Paul

Oh, so they have internet on computers now! - Homer Simpson

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

Never let the facts get in the way of the truth. - Farley Mowat

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. - Georges Braque

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. - Tolstoy

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth. - Tom Wallace

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. - Alberto Manguel

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. - Jean de la Bruyere

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. - Agnes Repplier

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

The great purpose of life - the shaping of character by truth. - Phillips Brooks

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. - French proverb

The internet turns 30 minutes of homework into 2 hours of homework. - Unknown

They say figures don't lie, but girdles sure condense the truth! - Unknown

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. - John P Barlow

Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality. - Ravi Zacharias

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - G K Chesterton

My way of joe-king is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt. - Margaret Deland

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

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. - Angela Thirkell

Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. - Albert Einstein

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. - John Hodgman

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. - Vance Havner

To give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation. - George Macdonald

The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lot if you approach it from only one angle. - Randal Marlin

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life. - Joyce Meyer

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. - Doris Lessing

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 truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it. - Samuel Pepys

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes