Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Truth
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
-Walt Whitman
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-Jerome K. Jerome
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
-Jean Cocteau
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
-Swami Vivekananda
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"
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
-Maya Angelou
