truth

"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 last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance."

"There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."

"Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you"

"Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!"

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."

"You have the ability to choose your reactions."

"But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it."

"When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears."

"I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand."

"Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true."

"I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not."

"Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."

"Scepticism is the first step towards truth."

"I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy."

"Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you."And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' "Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)"

"It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom."

"Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it."

"She said she loved me, and I believed her, because she was looking directly at another man when she said it."

"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."