Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Truth
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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
If you want to understand the teachings of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus or any great
philosopher, you will have to learn to differentiate and dissect their sayings
in two parts, one, 'eternal truth' and second, 'the truth relevant at that time'.
Without distinguishing the two, you will invariably end up misunderstanding their
sayings.
-Deep Trivedi
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
-Swami Vivekananda
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
-Rabindranath Tagore
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
