Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Truth
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-Ayn Rand
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
Man, in truth, is himself a sacrifice.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad 3.16.1"
