truth

"With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later."

"And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying."

"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

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

"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."

"Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun."

"The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too."

"If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable."

"The truth will make you odd."

"Progress just means bad things happen faster."

"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."

"A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it."

"I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor."

"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

"A truth that no one knows is still the truth."

"When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake."

"It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation."