truth

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"

"Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy."

"Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder."

"There is nothing more ancient than the truth."

"It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing."

"Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television."

"Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost."

"Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately."

"Falsehood is never in words; it is in things."

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

"Life is problems. Living is solving problems."

"If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort."

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

"truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong."

"I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind."

"If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless."

"Half-truths are worth more than outright lies."

"Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know."

"Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too."