Truth Quotes - Art should comfort
the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
“When you cut pieces out of the
truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's
Apprentice
“There is nothing that is going
to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.”
― Stefan Molyneux
“Every person must choose how
much truth he can stand.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche
Wept
“You don’t believe things because
they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
“Cherish those who seek the truth
but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire
“I do not know what I may appear
to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the
sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.”
― Isaac Newton
“There is no escape—we pay for
the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“I wondered how many people there
were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not
break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and
folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
“Art should comfort the disturbed
and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy
“I beg you, to have patience with
everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves
as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t
search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would
not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the
questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually,
without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to
a Young Poet
“A thing may happen and be a
total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They
Carried
“With a secret like that, at some
point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does
not.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
“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.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life
of Bees
“There is no doubt fiction makes
a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, Under My
Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
“Better to get hurt by the truth
than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite
Runner
“You’re not obligated to win.
You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
― Jason Mraz
“Chiron had said once that
nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than
another, wherever he is from.”
“But what if he is your friend?”
Achilles had asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. “Or
your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?”
“You ask a question that
philosophers argue over,” Chiron had said. “He is worth more to you, perhaps.
But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more
important?”
We had been silent. We were
fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven,
they still feel too hard.
He is half of my soul, as the
poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is
his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved
Briseis. I cannot save them all.
I know, now, how I would answer
Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of
Achilles
“If you would be a real seeker
after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far
as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes
“The opposite of a correct
statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well
be another profound truth.”
― Niels Bohr
“Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell
the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity.
Tell people how you feel.”
― Warsan Shire
“Vulnerability sounds like truth
and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but
they're never weakness.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly:
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and
Lead
