Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

One man's constant is another man's variable.

The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Truth is a tendency.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

Change is always subjective.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Moral: It all depends.

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.