The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Quotations
Truth
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advancement.
-Orville Wright
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
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 is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
-Leo Tolstoy
