Searching for truth

In any sentence, everything after 'but' is the truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it. (Laurence Durrell)

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (A Conan Doyle)

Tis strange, but true; for truth is always stranger than fiction. (Lord Byron)

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. (Oscar Wilde)

Truth has a way of asserting itself despite all attempts to obscure it. Distortion only serves to derail it for a time. No matter to what lengths we humans may go to obfuscate facts or delude our fellows, truth has a way of squeezing out through the cracks, eventually. (Robert Byrd)

What happened is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happened. (Robert McKee)

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life. (Plato)

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. (Stephen R Covey)

There is therefore a path which the human being may choose to take, a path which begins with reason's capacity to rise beyond what is contingent and set out towards the infinite. In different ways and at different times, men and women have shown that they can articulate this intimate desire of theirs. Through literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture and every other work of their creative intelligence they have declared the urgency of their quest. In a special way philosophy has made this search its own and, with its specific tools and scholarly methods, has articulated this universal human desire. It is rightly claimed that persons have reached adulthood when they can distinguish independently between truth and falsehood, making up their own minds about the objective reality of things. This is what has driven so many enquiries, especially in the scientific field, which in recent centuries have produced important results, leading to genuine progress for all humanity. (Papal Encyclical, Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998).

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as nothing happened. (Winston Churchill)

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. (Denis Diderot)

Wise is he who recognises that Truth is One and one only, but wiser still the one who accepts that Truth is called by many names, and approached from myriad routes. (Vedic text)