“The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.”
Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker
Source: A Brief History of Everything
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008Related quotes
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
Jesus (-7–30 BC) Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity
8:32
New Testament, Gospel of John
“The truth will set you free — but first it will make you miserable.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s. The earliest discovered citation is a poster in a residential treatment program for alcoholics in Syracuse, New York, [ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/04/truth-free/ described in a 1978 newspaper article]. Another early publication is is found in Pinochet's Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5
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“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.”
Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down
Source: A Long Way Down
Thich Nhat Tu (1969) Vietnamese philosopher
Buddhist Socteriological Ethics: A Study of the Buddha’s Central Teachings (1999)
“Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.”
Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
