Adrienne Rich Quotes

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

There are many levels of truth.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

The color of truth is gray.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

Truth is always a delusion.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

The opposite of every truth is just as 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

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

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

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Man is the measure of all things.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

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.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.