Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Truth
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
-Rabindranath Tagore
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
-Eli Siegel
There is no evil that cannot be done by the liar, who has transgressed the one law of truthfulness and who is indifferent to the world beyond.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 176"
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-Bill Copeland
To seek is to deny the truth that is right in front of you.
-J. Krishnamurti
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
When the force of the desire for Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.
-Adi Shankara "Adi Shankara"
