truth

"You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride."

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

"Few things are more deceptive than memories."

"...oppression is as American as apple pie..."

"Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it."

"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."

"For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true"

"In today's classroom everybody wins a trophy, even the one kid who actually won. Soon it will be, let's punish that kid for making the other kids feel like losers."

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

"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."

"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."

"The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?"

"What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in."

"Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it."

"Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."