Quotes about Truth
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
Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
With these startling honesties glinting up at us from history's broken mirror, it strikes me that this is worth shouting from the rooftops: We could be wrong this time, again. The enemy may not be exactly what we think. It may be a force that resides in many quarters, including inside our skin, in our very words, the questions we frame, the things we love most, the things we can't live without. Our greatest dread may be our salvation.
— Barbara Kingsolver