Why We Need Libraries

Always speak the truth. - George Washington

Tell the truth and run. - Yugoslavian Proverb

Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote

A lot of truth is said in jest. - Eminem

Truth does not happen; it just is. - Hopi Proverb

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

The expression of truth is simplicity. - Seneca

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

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. - Albert Camus

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. - Mahalia Jackson

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

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. - Mark Twain

I live by the truth that "No" is a complete sentence. - Anne Lamott

Most men look to what is right for them. Few search for the truth. - Unknown

We arrive at the truth, not by reason only, but also by the heart. - Blaise Pascal

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

Truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure of all men. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. - Portuguese Proverb

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. - John Milton

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

Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet. - Santosh Kalwar

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

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain

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

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

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. - Hunter S. Thompson

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so. - Mark Twain

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. - Sir Richard Steele

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. - Voltaire

The whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco

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