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It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.
— H.L. Mencken, American Mercury
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
— Anthony Liccione
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
— Elias Schwartz
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
— Jean Rostand
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the lake}, memory blossoms floated unbounded, as though breathed, no words spoken. Like birds that fly across national borders, between countries at war at each other.
— Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere
The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.
— Kevin Sites, In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
Decide what your truth is. Then live it.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a social issue. Like when you see someone stand up on a talk show and say, "How am I supposed to explain to my children that two men are getting married?... I dunno. It's your shitty kid. You fuckin' tell 'em. Why is that anyone else's problem? Two guys are in LOVE and they can't get married because you don't want to talk to your ugly child for five fuckin' minutes?
— Louis C.K.
It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.
— Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in the moments before I pass off into sleep—ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Truth only exists for those who cling to it."Sosuke Aizen
— Tite Kubo, Bleach―ブリーチ― 46 [Burīchi 46]
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It’s for their own good.
— Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right."The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..."Sure, I know, it's true.But some truths are probably worse than lies.
— Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.
— Kim Chestney, The Psychic Workshop: A Complete Program for Fulfilling Your Spiritual Potential
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.
— Rachel Ward, Numbers
Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.
— Evinda Lepins
George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.
— Mira Grant, Feed
Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It’s a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you have to set.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
— Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism
Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.
— Holly Black, White Cat
The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me
— Jeremy Aldana
Reading all the quotes in the world won’t make you or me into Plato, Gandhi Or Einstein, just like watching hundreds games of soccer won’t make you a soccer player or taking a yoga class will make u a yogini, or reading a golf book will make you a golfer. We need to put the Knowledge to practice and that is the challenge. Put it to work for you, make the effort to Follow Through
— Pablo
We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.
— Rachel Ward, Numbers
A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them.
— Heather Brewer, First Kill
Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control....Sometimes things take on a life of their own. You become powerless. There is nothing you can do to stop certain things from happening.
— Dana Reinhardt, Harmless
The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.
— Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some...anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts.
— Karen Chance, Fury's Kiss
Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.
— Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.
— Frank Norris, McTeague
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America
— Paul Robeson
The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
For truth is always strange
—  stranger than fiction.
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
God and Destiny are not against us, rather they are for us, they are the ones who never forget the things we have long forgotten, the ones who hear the desires of our heart that our own heads can't hear, and they are the ones who never forget who we really are, long after our minds have forgotten the images of who we are. We come from God and we belong to Destiny, yet for some reason of ignorance we think that to be the master of our own fates and the captain of our own souls means to write everything down on a paper and plan everything out on a grid! Such great things to be done, and we think they are accomplished by our primitive ways! No. We must only know what we want. And want what we want. And then fly high enough to see all that which we want that we couldn't yet see.
— C. JoyBell C.
To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face
— J.R.R. Tolkien
If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.
— Olen Steinhauer, The Tourist
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist"from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.
— Adam Levin, The Instructions
There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
— Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.
— Lucy Grealy
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
— Patrick White, Voss
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
— Emily Mitchell
truth is a friendthat asks for loyaltyand acceptancethen it enters our heartsdissolving the boundariesfreeing us from lonliness
— Nirmala, Gifts with No Giver: A Love Affair with Truth
In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.
— Dean Koontz, Breathless
The ordinary can be like medicine.
— Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins?
— Michael David Lukas, The Oracle of Stamboul
You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.
— Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.
— John Paul II, Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
I want to take you until you are boneless. I want to drain you of strength. I want to fill you and take my fill of you. My dear, Ivy, I want to devour you. I want your juices on my toung, flooding my mouth. I want your wetness on my face, your scent covering me. I want your blood in my veins.
— Kathryn Smith, Taken by the Night
she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
— Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty
In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.
— Robin Jones Gunn, Peculiar Treasures
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--
— Jeanne DuPrau
A disciple: I am worried about human suffering all over the world. What is the solution?Spiritual leader: The solution to our miseries lie within central atom of our being, ‘I’. Once this central atom transcends to ‘WE’, human sufferings can be resolved.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901
— Mark Twain
Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
Friends ask you questions
—  enemies question you.
The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.
— Mike  Norton, Just Another War Story
The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.", February 19, 1938)
— Raymond Chandler, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
— Bart D. Ehrman, Forged: Writing in the Name of God
There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay
—  falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.
— Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
— John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it that everything is real and everything is right;And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it.And so, if I die now, I die peacefullyBecause everything is real and everything is right.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?
— George Herbert, The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
— Edmund Burke
People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little
— Norman Vincent Peale
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
— David Mitchell
Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Anybody who says "I know how to get to God and you don't, do this and do that and go here and go there" is going to become 1. very powerful and 2. very rich. The simple truth is, if I am with God, no less can you be with God at the same time as I am.
— C. JoyBell C.
A statement of truth, and that is:Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.
— Felicia Martin, Floetry: Flowing Like Poetry
what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.
— Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?
— Alphonse de Lamartine, History of Turkey
My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless.
— Leo Tolstoy
Peace is not a result inside us from everything around us. Peace is not submissive nor passive. On the contrary, peace is an overwhelming force which comes from within us, disrespectful of everything around us, a firm coalition of spirit and soul standing against all the unrest that abounds.
— C. JoyBell C.
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
— Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.
— Matthew Inman, 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides
Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God’s revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
— Seraphim Rose, God's Revelation to the Human Heart
Smartass Disciple: Why we shouldn’t judge others? Master of Stupidity: Don’t! Unless you are paid for it.
— Toba Beta
I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at least, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people.
— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
There are always consequences to the truth.
— Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides
Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
— W. Clement Stone
She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians
I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.
— Raoul Wallenberg
I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.
— Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
— Henry David Thoreau
Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.
— Ernest Partridge, Responsibilities to future generations: Environmental ethics
If I tell you not to follow me, it ain't because I hate you, kiddo.I just don't want you feel dissapointed...when seeing the truth.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue;Wounded, we wound; and neither side can failFor every man has equal strength to rail.
— Homer
O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both.
— Sunil Vidyarthi, The Dead-End (Up) Here: Shiva You Do Not See, Screams You Do Not Hear
The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
— Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.
— Maurice Jones-Drew
Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
— Mary Renault, The Charioteer
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
In war, the first casualty is truth.
— Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.
— Kelli Jae Baeli, Immortality or Something Like It
A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
— Pierre Abélard
Truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.
— Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries
Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.
— David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
— Glenn Beck, The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life
Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When I became convinced that the Universe is natural – that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world -- not even in infinite space. I was free -- free to think, to express my thoughts -- free to live to my own ideal -- free to live for myself and those I loved -- free to use all my faculties, all my senses -- free to spread imagination's wings -- free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope -- free to judge and determine for myself -- free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past -- free from popes and priests -- free from all the "called" and "set apart" -- free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies -- free from the fear of eternal pain -- free from the winged monsters of the night -- free from devils, ghosts and gods. For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of thought -- no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings -- no chains for my limbs -- no lashes for my back -- no fires for my flesh -- no master's frown or threat – no following another's steps -- no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words. I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds.And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain -- for the freedom of labor and thought -- to those who fell on the fierce fields of war, to those who died in dungeons bound with chains -- to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs -- to those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and torn -- to those by fire consumed -- to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?
— Plato
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
— Tertullian
The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role.One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at least some books in common with the other person—which means, moreover, to have non-read the same books. From the beginning of the relationship, then, it is crucial to show that we can match the expectations of our beloved by making him or her sense the proximity of our inner libraries.
— Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
When God is ready for you to move, He will make your situation uncomfortable.
— Germany Kent
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
— Alice James
Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]
— George Sand, Correspondance
Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.
— Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.
— Sheri S. Tepper, King's Blood Four
There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams
A man of God would never burn or harm a temple of any kind - regardless of religion. A true man of God would see every temple or divine mansion built to glorify the Creator - as an extension of the temple closest to his home, regardless of its shape, size, or color. A man who truly recognizes and knows God can see God in all things.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley
There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
— Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.
— Mike  Norton
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
— Catherine of Siena
Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?
— Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 7
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
— Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier
But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”“You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.
— Mira Grant, Feed
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
— Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
— Augustine of Hippo
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.
— Deepak Chopra
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
— Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.
— Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
— Alice Sebold, Lucky
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
— Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder
When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy?
— Charles Benoit, You
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.
— Albert Camus
My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.
— Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
How would your life be different if...You could control the outcome of your day, your week, your year? Let today be the day...You embrace the truth that you DO have such control to label every event in your life, and create an agreement with reality that empowers you and propels you to greatness.
— Steve Maraboli, The Power of One
You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.
— Stephen King
Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you:-Is that all you're going to do all day, sit in front of the computer?-When I was your age I had two jobs.-Why don't you wear some clothes that fir for a change?-Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here.-You're not eating that for dinner.-Did you do your homework?-Stop mumbling and speak up.-Now what did you do?-Because I said so.-No.
— Charles Benoit, You
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
— Chuck Barris, You and Me, Babe
Pick a truth that blesses your life!
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror. 
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.
— Toba Beta
Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
— Henry James, What Maisie Knew
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. 
— Konrad Lorenz, Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.
— Andre Dubus, Meditations from a Movable Chair
Men don't need linguistic talent
—  they just need courage and words.
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
— Augusto Roa Bastos, I, the Supreme
There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.
— Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
— Adrienne Rich
Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and it's the one truth that does the most to shape us. God is the Sun too bright for us to see. Jesus is the Prism who makes the colors beautiful and comprehensible.
— Michael Spencer, Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
— Edward Verrall Lucas
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
— Michael Crichton, State of Fear
Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
— Mary Karr
Gus and I talk about girls a lot, but we can't figure them out. They are so confusing. Like, if you look at them, they get mad. And if you don't look at them, they get mad. And if you're nice to them, they think you like them. And if you're mean to them, they think you like them. And if you do like them, they think you hate them.
— Lisa Yee, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time
You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it?' 'It's both,' she said, shrugging. 'It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.'Kristy and Macy; p.135
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
— Michelle Sagara West, The Broken Crown
What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
— Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive
Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth.
— Santosh Kalwar
What a bright sunny day, and I don't know what to say...
— Santosh Kalwar
Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:9
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?
— Laura Dave, London is the Best City in America
Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind.
— Santosh Kalwar
Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.
— Arne Tiselius
So,’ Nico said, ‘since we’re going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.’ Percy’s smile wavered. ‘What do you mean?
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
— Clarence Darrow
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.
— Sándor Márai, Embers