truth

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

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

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

"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."

"...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory."

"Some people say—not to my face, mind you—that I’m a cowardly son of a bitch. And that is simply not true. My mom is not a bitch."

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

"Every person must choose how much truth he can stand."

"You're so easy to read but the book is boring me."

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."

"Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."

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

"In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot."

"Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful."

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."

"If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by"