Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Truth
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
-Henry David Thoreau
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance… To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
-Akhenation "Akhenation, 14 century Egyptian king"
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
-Mark Twain
Truth has always prevailed and always will, because it is the bridge between all
the contradictory powers and emotions of this world. Irrespective of the number
of ups and downs that may come, both in the energies and emotions, truth
always stands still.
-Deep Trivedi
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
