“One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 531
“One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Louis Farrakhan (1933) leader of the Nation of Islam
Farrakhan speaks in Birmingham to support Voting Rights Act https://www.al.com/spotnews/2013/06/farrakhan_speaks_in_birmingham.html (14 June 2013)
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English humorist
Idler Magazine, Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=vMYaAAAAYAAJ&q=exceptionally+good+liar#search_anchor|The
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Quoted by [Three years ago today: Trump promised “I will always tell you the truth”, Jon, Perr, August 18, 2019, January 16, 2021, Daily Kos, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/18/1879762/-Three-years-ago-today-Trump-promised-I-will-always-tell-you-the-truth]).
2016, August 2016
“You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself”
Terry Goodkind book The Omen Machine
Source: The Omen Machine
“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
"La Paquet Rouge" in Opéra (1925)
David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday