Truth is after all a moving target

Truth is after all a moving target
Hairs to split,
And pieces that don’t fit
How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit.
~Neil Peart, Turn the Page
(Thank you, Ryan)

It is a terrible thing for man

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.  ~Oscar Wildequoted in The World within the World, John D. Barrow, p260; NA

The trouble about man is twofold he

The trouble about man is twofold.  He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.  ~Rebecca WestWRM

A thing may happen and be a

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.  ~Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

We do not err because truth is

We do not err because truth is difficult to see.  It is visible at a glance.  We err because this is more comfortable.  ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I am of the buddhists the great

I am of the Buddhists.  The great Teacher comes periodically.  He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re?stablish the truth.  ~Martin H. FischerFFM

The greatest truths are the simplest so

The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827TPV

Every truth passes through three stages before

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized.  In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.  ~Arthur SchopenhauerPMB