truth

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"Nothing is ever certain."

"Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were."

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

"Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular."

"His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore."

",the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do."

"We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own."

"Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark"

"Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite."

"I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot."

"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."

"To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual."

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

"They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it."

"Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”“The way you tell it, it is."