When the force of the desire for Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.
-Adi Shankara "Adi Shankara"
When the force of the desire for Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.
-Bob Marley
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
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