Leo Buscaglia Quotes

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.

Truth burns up error.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.