truth

"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

"Faith is believing in something you know isn't true."

"Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it."

"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth."

"The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do."

"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."

"you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before…"

"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."

"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 very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority."

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

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

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"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."

"Life is problems. Living is solving problems."

"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head."

"Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true."