Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Truth
Half a truth is often a great lie.
-Benjamin Franklin
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-Virginia Woolf
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston S. Churchill
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
