Truth
Quotes - We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities
“I'm
for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or
against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and
whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
―
Malcolm X
“I'm
about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a
load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is
the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but
in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't
care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.”
―
Greg Behrendt
“The
truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
―
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“People
think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a
lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the
person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself
from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be
faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There
are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie
is the blackest of all.”
―
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“We
live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
―
Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
“Men
may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
“The
truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
―
Nadine Gordimer
“A
thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find
out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Much
of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be
said.”
―
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai
Undercity
“You
can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that
God hates all the same people you do.”
―
Anne Lamott
“There
are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to
refuse to believe what is true.”
―
Soren Kierkegaard
“There’s
no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns
out.”
―
Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
“For
me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in
delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
―
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“If
you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort
you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to
begin, and in the end, despair.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“Just
because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
―
Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
“I
think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we
burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And
then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful
than we ever were before!”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Sometimes
things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
― T.S.
Eliot
“Whatever
satisfies the soul is truth.”
―
Walt Whitman
“Being
in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth
and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole
world, you were not mad.”
―
George Orwell, 1984
“Those
sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.
Good
things come to those who wait.”
―
Jess C. Scott, The Intern
“I’m
just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody
that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody
interesting. It’s disgusting.”
―
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
