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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
— William Osler
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.
— David Baldacci
Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.
— Michael Crichton, State of Fear
But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.
— Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets
There is no conscience in a real war.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.
— Paul McKenna
He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.
— John Milton
We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.
— Joan Ryan
They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth. 
— Sheri S. Tepper, The Revenants
Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life. 
— Eugène Carrière
The relationship between truth and reason:"Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!
— Maurice Blondel
There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.
— Toba Beta
May I have a few friends and many books - both true.
— Arthur Ernest Cowley
Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it.
— John Piper
There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.
— Santosh Kalwar
Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Smartass Disciple: How the hell do we find the truth ?Master of Stupidity: Just seek it with hope it’ll find you.
— Toba Beta
Sometimes the truth feels good.
— Carson Kressley
Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths
— Salman Rushdie
Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth?Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth?
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I was born handsome and I will die handsome. 
— Santosh Kalwar, Happening:Poems
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If you don't love yourself, you won't be happy with yourself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone else. You can't give the love you do not have. You can't make anyone love you without loving yourself first.
— Kemi Sogunle
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Truth is immortal
—  error is mortal.
.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.
— Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.
— Amit Ray
Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.
— Diane Duane, Wizards at War
Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.
— Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb
Fear nothing but your conscience.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
— Augusto Roa Bastos, I, the Supreme
Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Your faith is your conscience, and your conscience is your faith. You cannot have faith without a conscience, but you can have a conscience without faith. Man was designed to be good with or without religion, yet the challenge for many is staying good. Some people claim to be religious but have no conscience, while some people without religion are very much aware of their conscience. Therefore, a religious label does not define your character or validate your worth. In the end, all men will be judged by the amount of truth in them and the weight of their hearts. The heavier the conscience, the heavier the truth. The lighter the heart, the higher it goes. The only spiritual currency one has in the afterlife is amassed in the form of light, in that, the amount you have depends on the weight of your words and deeds in the living. Conscience is everything. Conscience is what connects us to the truth and light of the highest power source of all. God. The cosmic heart of the universe.
— Suzy Kassem
Truth, like a little dog, will always find its way out into the street.
— Michael Mejia
If there's one person in the world you should be with, there must be one person in the world you shouldn't be with.
— Amy Zhang, This Is Where the World Ends
People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.
— Hermann Bahr
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact
—  it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.
— Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
In God's eyes, we're all the same.
— Mark Willis
Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.
— J.M. Coetzee
Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception
—  within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy.
The strong man is not one who is good at wrestling, but the strong man is one who controls himself in a fit of rage.
— Anonymous
If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies
The dead never go to their own funeral.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
We all have a voice. Some a whisper, some a roar. If you can roar, roar for others. If you can only whisper, keep trying. Every roar started small.
— M.L. Shanahan
I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend over backward, stoop down low to hear its voice breathed up from the ground, from the dead places. You may think there’s something in it for you, something to understand or make sense of.But I know the truth: I know from the nights of Coldness. I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It’s hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing— is run.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows
— Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person
— Hassan Choughari
The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
— René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.
— D. Antoinette Foy
The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary
— Stephen King, Cujo
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
— Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,And isn’t cured from the outside,Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,Or a trunk not having iron bands!There being injustice is like there being death.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
There is nothing more powerful than truth. It is undeniable and should always be appreciated. The truth gives you unlimited freedom to be who you are and express how you feel. The truth offers you peace of mind which is something we all love.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
— Herbert Spencer, First Principles
A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly.That’s human action on the outside world.We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pass by and we forget;And the sun is always punctual every day.(5/7/14)
— Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
Being truthful is the new beautiful.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Deacon's Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay
There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.No wind whatsoever brought you now.Now you’re here.What you were isn’t you, or else the whole rose would be here.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Chainschains that hold me to the groundchains that keep me solidly boundchains that tether my heart to youchains that only one truth...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.
— Jenna Alatari
I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real and true wholenessIs a sickness of our ideas.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintiness.I do not bear with me, by any chance,An insult not yet washed away- a conscienceYellow with unpurged bile- an honor frayedTo rags, a set of scruples badly worn.I go caparisoned in gems unseen,Trailing white plumes of freedom, garlandedWith my good name- no figure of a man,But a soul clothed in shining armor, hungWith deeds for decorations, twirling- thus-A bristling wit, and swinging at my sideCourage, and on the stones of this old townMaking the sharp truth ring, like golden spurs!
— Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
— Wiz Khalifa
the gods play nofavorites.
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
— Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
The truth is, it's not the act that I'm scared of, but giving myself so entirely to someone. As long as there are lines to draw and boundaries to cling to, I can pretend that I'm safe from the wanting that threatens to consume me. I'm separate, still all my own. But after...What then? What comes after, when he has that much of me, to do with as he chooses? When I have him. Will it ever be enough?
— Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls
Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.
— Cyc Jouzy
In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!
— H.P. Lovecraft
I thought I had everything until I found you.
— Turcois Ominek
Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.
— Tony Vigorito, Nine Kinds of Naked
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
— Lionel Suggs
God existed before every religion
—  He exists in spite of all religions.
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.
— sunny-drunk
Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.
— Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends
Never submit we are all equals
— Heather Nelson, The Albino Redwoods
Face the truth or the truth will face you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.
— Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil
Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.
— Alexandra Bogdanovic, Truth Be Told: Adam Becomes Audrey
You can't be spontaneous within reason.
— Brittany DeLaBarrera
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
— George Eliot
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.
— Norlito Baclayen
[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true]Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.
— Felix Adler
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
— Christopher Vogler, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again....often history repeats itself before it changes.....
— Prashant
One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.
— Seth D.
It won't hurt until you feel it.
— Lovely Goyal, I Love the Way You Love Me
if its gets rough, you need to get tough.
— Lovely Goyal, I Love the Way You Love Me
Do you like Rhiannon more than me?" ... They're two completely different concepts. When a girl asks you a question like that, there's no way you can be honest. They say they want you to be honest, but then they get all upset when you are. You can't win. There's no way to win. There are questions you just can't answer without manipulating the truth.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.
— Mollie Marti
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
— John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.
— Mollie Marti
Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Your greatest path of influence is love.
— Mollie Marti
Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may—until that time comes, I have the right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I'm sure you won't do him more harm than you'll do the truth good. Or until I'm hauled before somebody that can make me talk.
— Raymond Chandler, The High Window
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.
— William Saroyan
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
— E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril
Intuition is the art of the moment. Intuition is always in the moment, in the here and now. While the intellect always moves like the pendulum of a clock between the memories of the past and the fantasies of the future, intuition is always in the moment, always in the here and now. The more we develop our inner being, the inner source of love and truth, the inner quality of being here and now, the more we also have access to our intuition.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Truth  is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time.
— R. Lewis
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
— Alain de Botton
For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ...It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can't help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand.
— Nelson Algren, Entrapment and Other Writings
Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.
— Marty Rubin
What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.
— David Budbill, Judevine: The Complete Poems, 1970-1990
My life is my testimony.
— L.M. Fields
The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as the size of the emotion.
— Dalit Orbach, בדידותו של קורא המחשבות
Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.
— E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril
I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.
— Stephen R. Lawhead, The Paradise War
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm heart, the conclusions thus attained are often so profound and so unerring as to possess the character of truth supernaturally revealed.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Its not how strong you are, its how firm your footing is.
— Clive Ollies
Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.
— Dallas Athent
Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.
— Sandro Veronesi, Quiet Chaos
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
— Arthur Miller, The Crucible
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
— Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
— Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and Other Stories
Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.
— John Irving, In One Person
Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
— Eugene T. Gendlin, Focusing
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
— Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of deception - a way of manipulating the other person by preventing the person from discovering "real thoughts and real feelings
— Clark Mustakas
I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.
— L.J. Smith, Vreden och Återkomsten
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1
A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself
Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name? to respond when called.Ever wonder why?.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško čovjeku ako su mu mjera nebo i zemlja.
— Meša Selimović
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace
War kills everybody, including the ones who live.
— Hallgrímur Helgason, The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning
Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional
— Russian, Unknown
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.
— Liz Armbruster
Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
— Mary Beth Chapman, Choosing to SEE
Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.
— Eric Gill
A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH(Name of chapter)
— William J. Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.
— Faraaz Kazi
Truth starts with truth and ends with truth.
— Santosh Kalwar
The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying?
— Jackie Blue
I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.
— Kazimir Malevich, Essays On Art, 1915 1933
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your kids pissing you off is an inborn instinct. It's nature's way of getting you to kick them out when they turn 18!Okaaay. ~sigh~ Due to the times, you can kick them out between the ages of 28-38. Can someone please dramatically reduce the cost of housing, already?~SHEESH~
— Dakota Dawn
Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain
— Aeschylus, The Oresteia
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
— Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
— John R.W. Stott
That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.
— Tim Tharp, Knights of the Hill Country
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.
— Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum
When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda* ~
— Miranda Linda Weisz
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.
— Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics
When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.
— Daniel Mackler, Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment
How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.
— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, 'What is a person permitted, once he's realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn't exist for him?' Do you remember your answer?""I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: 'If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.
— Vladimir Bartol, Alamut
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
— Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)
— Tara Leigh Cobble, Orange Jumpsuit: Letters to the God of Freedom
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
— Stephen King
Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created perfect, and despite the inevitability that we loose some of that perfection when we mature and develop in the midst of others who are wounded, we always retain the capacity to become perfect once again. The soul may be buried deeply, but as long as our hearts beat there remains hope.
— Daniel Mackler, Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
— Thomas Pynchon
Memorizing someone else’s explanation of the truth isn’t the same as seeing the truth for yourself. It is what it is—the memorization of second-hand knowledge. It is not your experience. It is not your knowledge. And no matter how much material is learned by rote, and no matter how eloquently we can speak about the memorized information, we’re clinging to a description of something that’s not ours. What’s more, the description is never the item itself. By holding onto our impression of certain descriptions, we frequently are unable to see the real thing when it’s right before our eyes. We are conditioned by memorizing and believing concepts—the truth of which we’ve never genuinely seen for ourselves.
— H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
— Samuel Johnson, Lives of the poets: Milton
Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.
— Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses
The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.
— Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
And now I feel like crying, because I really do not understand, and I don't think I will when I'm older either. It was only when I loved Franz I understood the world, and felt happy. When you love, you're praying. Everything was quite clear. I wanted to be good. I think you begin things the right way when you want to be good. And I think I'm doing everything wrong now because all I want is for people to be good to me. I want to be loved, everybody wants to be loved; for a thousand people who want to be loved there may perhaps be just one who wants to love. Our Father which art in heaven...my heart is all a lump of grief.
— Irmgard Keun
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties
—  it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.
— Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.
— Voltaire
Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
— Mike  Norton
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
— Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
— Isabel Allende, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life. It is not an escape from the world, rather it is the arrival at a vantage point from which we can see more deeply into the reality of the world.
— Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
All we know is what we're told.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz. Bu zübükler heryerde var, biz zübükler nerde varsak, onlar da orada...
— Aziz Nesin, Zübük
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
— Ayn Rand, We the Living
I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.
— Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose
I am going to die, but that is of no importance.
— Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody
Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?
— Richard Pryor
Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.
— Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.
— Pope Benedict XVI, Saved in Hope: Spe Salvi
And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was during however many days and weeks it was written. A fictional reflection of my mind fossilized, set in paper and ink, instead of stone. Memorialized, for better or worse. This is who I was, and this, and this, and this, and that, and most times I look back and wince. I'm rarely kind to who I was. But other times, looking back is bittersweet. Sometimes, I'm even grateful to the me of then who left a snapshot for the me of now. Maybe I should let go and join those who pretend the past is past, but it's a falsehood I've never learned to spin.
— Caitlín R. Kiernan, Two Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan, Volume One
Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.
— Robin Wasserman, Crashed
Whatsoever thing you believe strongly,it will be turned into truth within your mind.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.
— William James, Pragmatism and Other Writings
Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is...
— Jayce O'Neal
One thing I love about politicians
—  they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.
He leaned back, appalled at himself. She was a ***damn dose of truth serum. Things were falling out of his mouth as though his ability to sensor had short-circuited.
— Laura Spinella
There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.
— Tiffany Madison
In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies.
— Megan Karasch
Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.
— Henning Mankell, Sidetracked
Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Money and religion are perfect alloy.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.
— Iris Johansen, Dead Aim
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature
Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items to be sold on a small scale, in a common marketplace where their friends meet and barter. I and many of my friends own more than one spinning wheel. We grow our food again. We make pickles and jams on private, individual scales, when many of our mothers forgot those skills if they ever knew them. We come to conventions, we create small communities of support and distributed skills--when one of us needs help, our village steps in. It’s only that our village is no longer physical, but connected by DSL instead of roads. But look at how we organize our tribes--bloggers preside over large estates, kings and queens whose spouses’ virtues are oft-lauded but whose faces are rarely seen. They have moderators to protect them, to be their knights, a nobility of active commenters and big name fans, a peasantry of regular readers, and vandals starting the occasional flame war just to watch the fields burn. Other villages are more commune-like, sharing out resources on forums or aggregate sites, providing wise women to be consulted, rabbis or priests to explain the world, makers and smiths to fashion magical objects. Groups of performers, acrobats and actors and singers of songs are traveling the roads once more, entertaining for a brief evening in a living room or a wheatfield, known by word of mouth and secret signal. Separate from official government, we create our own hierarchies, laws, and mores, as well as our own folklore and secret history. Even my own guilt about having failed as an academic is quite the crisis of filial piety--you see, my mother is a professor. I have not carried on the family trade.We dwell within a system so large and widespread, so disorganized and unconcerned for anyone but its most privileged and luxurious members, that our powerlessness, when we can summon up the courage to actually face it, is staggering. So we do not face it. We tell ourselves we are Achilles when we have much more in common with the cathedral-worker, laboring anonymously so that the next generation can see some incremental progress. We lack, of course, a Great Work to point to and say: my grandmother made that window; I worked upon the door. Though, I would submit that perhaps the Internet, as an object, as an aggregate entity, is the cathedral we build word by word and image by image, window by window and portal by portal, to stand taller for our children, if only by a little, than it does for us. For most of us are Lancelots, not Galahads. We may see the Grail of a good Classical life, but never touch it. That is for our sons, or their daughters, or further off.And if our villages are online, the real world becomes that dark wood on the edge of civilization, a place of danger and experience, of magic and blood, a place to make one’s name or find death by bear. And here, there be monsters.
— Catherynne M. Valente
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
— R.C. Sproul, Choosing My Religion
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.
— Donna J. Haraway
Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
— Sophocles, Antigone
Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say "I know", I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.
— Terry Johnson, Plays 1: Insignificance / Unsuitable for Adults / Cries from the Mammal House
Fact and fiction are different truths.
— Patricia MacLachlan, The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt