Adversity Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible…

— Umberto Eco

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

— E. M. Forster

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to…

— Graham Joyce

“That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.”

— Ali Sheikh

“So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with…

— Walter Wink

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are finally proved…

— George Orwell

To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

— Janwillem van de Wetering

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

— Gerald Massey

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All truths are easy to understand once they have been revealed. What is difficult is to discover them.”

— Galileo Galilei