Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Truth
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
-Mark Twain
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
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"
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph
