“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
More from Barbara Kingsolver on Truth
“...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.”
“Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.”
“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.”
“People ask without wanting to know.”
“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cerv...”
Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
Napoleon
6 quotes“All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.”
Thomas Jefferson
6 quotes“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”
Tacitus
6 quotes“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”