It's Rarely Pure and Never Simple

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Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth – to see it as it is, and tell it like it is – to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. – Richard M. Nixon

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth. Denis Diderot

There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. – Niels Bohr

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

The truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. – Allai E. Stevenson

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth has a way of shifting under pressure. – Curtis Bok

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