Truth Quote by Edward Abbey — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.”

“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”

“If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.”

“This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of man.”

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”

“We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.”

“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”

“There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.”

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”

“Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you.”