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
Quotations
Truth
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"
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
-Akhenation "Akhenation, 14 century Egyptian king"
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
