Quotes About Depth

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

Something lurked inside the truth.

Truth resists simplicity.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same light exists within us too - As the Tibetans say: "Recognition is liberation."

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

The truth within moves as intimacy of being.

Truth defies simplicity.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?

Behind one truth there is always yet another.

Truth implies meaning.

You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.