Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Truth
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 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"
Pure loving feelings take you nearer to truth than when you see only defects.
-Leo Tolstoy
Through true devotional worship, they are attuned to Truth; at the True Door, they are found to be true. Blessed is their coming into being; they redeem all their ancestors.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
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
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-Anonymous
