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Truth Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
- When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
- The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to…
- Lying is done with words and also with silence.
- When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
- Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
- The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
- There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the…
- There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
- Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.…
- Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories and false naming's of real events.
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov