truth

"In darkness God's truth shines most clear."

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear."

"What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him."

"Scepticism is the first step towards truth."

"Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books..."

"Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything."

"But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.—Ditta"

"Life, it’s made up of two things—time and love. A watch tells one, but what tells the other? We tell each other."

"And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express"

"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."

"A lot of people go searching for “Truth.” But they can’t be searching too hard, because very few of them ever think to look under my bed."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road."

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"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."

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do."