Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
But better to be hurt by the truth than be comforted with a lie.
-Khaled Hosseini
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-Anonymous
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
-Robert Brault
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
-Stephanie Klein
"Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir"
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
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
-André Gide