Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

The truth is always multiplex.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

There are always many sides to the truth.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

The counsel of many wise men is better than the counsel of one man alone.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.