Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.