The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Quotations
Truth
There are ways from light into darkness and from darkness into light. There are ways, also, from the gloom into deeper darkness, and from the dawn into brighter light. The wise man will use the light he has to receive more light. He will constantly advance in the knowledge of truth.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
-J. Krishnamurti
Truth never comes where lust and fame and greed of gain resides.
-Swami Vivekananda
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
