truth

"I like the truth, even when it does trouble me."

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

"I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all."

"My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon."

"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."

"Can Power speak the truth to love? These men certainly blurted it out. And what did we learn from them? That power is blind, and love at first sight is a fickle judge of those who grasp too desperately."

"when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you."

"Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now."

"Love truth, but pardon error."

"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you’d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."

"Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside."

"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."

"Nothing is yet in its true form."

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

"My reality is it’s nighttime. The truth is I’m just blindfolded. How many people live like me, in self-deluded darkness?"

"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity."

"Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side."

"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king."

"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."