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
If you love the truth, you’ll trust it.
-Abraham Maslow
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
-Mark Twain
