truth

"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."

"We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us."

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."

"Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins."

"She's beautiful, but so what? If the University of Florida taught me anything, it's that beautiful women are everywhere. The trick is to find the diamond among all the glittering cubic zirconias."

"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday."

"This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature."

"Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers"

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told."

"The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny."

"The best gifts come from the heart, not the store."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

"He said the truth is like that water: it doesn't matter how hard you try to bury it; it'll always find some way back to the surface. It's resilient."

"When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie."