A Quote by Anthony de Mello

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Anthony de Mello

Quote Topics

Being Between Distance Human Human Being Shortest Shortest Distance Story Truth Understand

Quote Author

Anthony de Mello
Indian - Priest
September 4, 1931 - June 2, 1987

A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

Anthony de Mello

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

Robert J. Sawyer

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Charles Stanley

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

Sun Myung Moon

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Leo Aikman

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Yakov Smirnoff

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Charles Bukowski

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Archimedes

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Madeleine L'Engle

The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.

Demetri Martin

It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.