Truth Quote by Walt Whitman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love”

“TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,”

“And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

“Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems”

“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.”

“Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.”

“Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”

“If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators”

“There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”

“You cannot believe everything you hear”

“It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men.”