truth

"Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it."

"I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)"

"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."

"It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel."

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

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."

"Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”Wes: “How do you win?” he askedMacy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question."

"re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.[From the preface to Leaves Grass]"

"No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns."

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"

"There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul."

"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."

"It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before."

"When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

"Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words,the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds."

"Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him."

"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."

"There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious."