Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
Interpretation
Truth can be more aligned with ideas and feelings than with cold facts.
In this quote, Shirley Hazzard suggests that the essence of truth may sometimes reside more in the realms of imagination, intelligence, and love rather than strictly adhering to factual accuracy. She emphasizes that being precise or factual does not necessarily equate to being correct, highlighting the complexities and nuances of understanding truth beyond mere verification.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of truth and reality, this quote can highlight the importance of perspective.
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as 'police culture?' Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they donβt care if that mark is a scar.
My only fear of death is reincarnation
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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