truth

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

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all."

"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."

"I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy."

"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."

"Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."

"The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts."

"We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it."

"Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding."

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]"

"The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture"

"I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood."

"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."

"There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that."

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."