Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Science is but an image of the truth.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Facts are better than dreams.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

The truth is more important than the facts

I seek the truth.