Quotes about Truth
The most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels. It has to do with empathy. It has to do with being comfortable with the notion that the world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found, and that you have to strive for that and work for that. And the notion that it's possible to connect with some[one] else even though they're very different from you.
— Barack Obama
Truth is that war is never tidy and always results in unintended consequences, even when launched against seemingly powerless countries on behalf of a righteous cause.
— Barack Obama
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
That means you're my kid, I explained, and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.
— Barbara Kingsolver
she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Scientists are not like other people, sir. We cannot slam our portals. We have to follow evidence where it leads, even if no one likes that place. Even if it suggests that all we have ever believed might be mistaken.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver