From Dogen: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Tag Archives: truth
Quote of the day 04/21/24
From William Faulkner: “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
Quote of the day 03/31/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”
Quote of the day 02/03/24
From Leo Tolstoy: “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Quote of the day 01/21/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Quote of the day 12/04/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Quote of the day 11/09/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Quote of the day 10/31/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”