#truth

"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it"

"The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces."

"Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes vs. Cassava vs. Popeye [10w] "I am that I am that I am a yam."

"Mythbusters [10w] Snipers will assure you safety in numbers is a myth."

"Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news."

"Elegance in Simplicity [10w] The more complex the problem,the simpler the correct answer."

"Lowbrows vs. Highbrows If you show something lowbrow to a highbrow does it wind up becoming crusty eye caca?"

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

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

"McDonald's I love and rescue stray dogs, duct tape Burger King crowns to their heads and set them loose in McDonald's."

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

"I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you."

"Gained in Translation [10w] In timeless truths there's more gained than lost in translation."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange."

"My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks."

"Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress."

"Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all."

"I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth."