truth

"Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying."

"The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth."

"The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth."

"A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it."

"Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it."

"If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy."

"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."

"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."

"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them"

"I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting."

"Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves."

"You believe what your eyes want to believe!"

"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."

"Scepticism is the first step towards truth."

"A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right."

"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

"People who pride themselves on their "complexity"and deride others for being "simplistic"should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth."

"One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair,"we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be."