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We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.