truth

"You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true."

"People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there"

"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."

"Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them."

"If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

"Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness."

"The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts."

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it."

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose."

"All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine."

"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it"

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

"Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."

"Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul."

"Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through."

"Even things that are true can be proved."

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."