truth

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."

"For those who like that sort of thing,"said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

"The truth was stranger than the official fiction."

"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

"I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world."

"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."

"Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it."

"Hypocrites get offended by the truth."

"But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love."

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"

"It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself."

"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."

"So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains."

"Be a true Heart, not a follower."

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

"It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates."