“It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.”

“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

“Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.”

Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator

“It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me…”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”

Holly Black book White Cat

“Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.”

Elizabeth Kostova (1964) American writer