Elie Wiesel Quotes

Time discovers truth.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them

I like to open people's eyes.

Light itself is a revelation.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

A mystery is solved with a story.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

What writing does is to reveal.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.