„Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.“
— Virginia Woolf
„She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head.“
— Virginia Woolf
„The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.“
— Confucius
„He seeks order, not truth. Suppose truth defies order, will he accept it? Will you? I think not.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.“
— W.B. Yeats
„The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.“
— Franz Kafka