truth

"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

"Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth."

"Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world."

"Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes."

"Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it."

"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."

"Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."

"Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion."

"The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma."

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it."

"He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death."

"In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution."

"It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."

"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world."

"Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it."

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

"If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it."

"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

"Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them."