Anais Nin Quotes

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

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

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

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

For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line.

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

Facts are often complicated.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.