Truth Quotes - There is beauty in
truth, even if it's painful
“You think when you wake up in
the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What
else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin
else.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for
Old Men
“Simple can be harder than
complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move
mountains.”
― Steve Jobs
“Does truth have a moral?”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of
Monsters
“The truth is, everyone likes to
look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw
in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are
all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers.
Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes,
fantasy readers have their own snobbishness. I’ll bet this, though: in a
hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter
than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare
wrote popular fiction—until he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the
literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in
knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how
we want to define “literature”. The Latin root simply means “letters”. Those
letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For
some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some crit
― Brent weeks
“The high-minded man must care
more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle
“There is beauty in truth, even
if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy,
brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen
our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure
anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's
soul.”
― José N. Harris
“If you give up what you want
most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
“You shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery
O'Connor: Collected Works
“The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and
stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein
“The truth knocks on the door and
you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.
Puzzling.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Like all dreamers I confuse
disenchantment with truth.”
― Jean Paul Sarte
“V-Day…if you need this one day
in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think
it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has
nothing to do with real love.”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog
Novel
“For everything in this journey
of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love
there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain
there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of
pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing
of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the
wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the
wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings
and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful
wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as
the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with
one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with
one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the
other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of per
― C. JoyBell C.
“The time will come when diligent
research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A
single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough
for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be
unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our
descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to
them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us
will have been effaced.”
― Seneca, Natural Questions
“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.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will
Save Your Life
