It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.

It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

you do not realize that one has to learn to speak the truth. it seems to you that it is enough to wish or to decide to do so. and i tell you that people comparatively rarely tell a deliberate lie. in most cases they think they speak the truth. and yet they lie all the time, both when they wish to lie and when they wish to speak the truth. they lie all the time, both to themselves and to others. therefore nobody ever understands either himself or anyone else. think - could there be such discord, such deep misunderstanding, and such hatred towards the views and opinions of others, if people were able to understand because they cannot help lying. to speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; and one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to be able to speak the truth. the wish alone is not enough. to speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. and this nobody wants to know.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.