truth

"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable."

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire."

"That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw."

"You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble."

"True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you."

"A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.[Report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, May 9-10 1966]"

"Hypocrites get offended by the truth."

"Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth."

"I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf"

"Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them."

"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…"

"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level."

"They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter."

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."

"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains."

"Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside."

"You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you."

"Be a true Heart, not a follower."

"In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's."

"Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong."