Adrienne Rich
“An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love’ — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.” – Adrienne Rich
“If all of life is perception, how then can we ever know “truth”?”
J. Amarelo
“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.” – Albert Schweitzer
Elizabeth Gilbert on Truth-Hunting
“If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth seeking journey, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.”
“Speak the Truth. That is always much easier and is often the most powerful argument.” – Frank Herbert, Dune
“Language, that most human invention, can enable what in principle should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.”
“The Mind’s Eye” by Oliver Sacks.
“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
Ayn Rand
Simon Blackburn on Truth, Context, and Perspective
“Relativism is most simply defined as the view that you have your truth, and I have mine. In other words, there is no such thing as THE truth – there are only truths as they are asserted or believed or accepted by different classes of people…”
Simon Blackburn in Conversations on Truth
“All opinions, properly so called, are stages on the road to truth.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers