truth

"God is not interested in your art but, your heart."

"You're so easy to read but the book is boring me."

"there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit's too lateand there's nothing worsethan too late"

"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth."

"There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race."

"Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood."

"I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen."

"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth."

"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."

"Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it."

"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."

"There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance."

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

"Beware:Ignorance Protects itself.IgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows."

"Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection."

"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."

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."