“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”
Source: East of Eden
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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Baba (58)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“The truth hurts
and lie's worse.”
Broken Strings
Song lyrics, Undiscovered (James Morrison album) (2006)
Grzegorz Strzelczyk, a Catholic priest who co-authored a book that was a conversation record between him and Vetulani, in an interview with Tygodnik Sanocki http://tygodniksanocki.pl/2017/10/08/czy-w-mozgu-mieszka-bog/ (in Polish).
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 5, “Another Day, Another Editorial” (p. 71)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Source: Leonardo's Notebooks
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
“A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.”
"The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics," Nobel Lecture http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.html (11 December 1965)